[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - 25 Jan 2012

[Curtis Windatt <Curtis_Windatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Planning Meeting Notes
25 January 2012

JDT UI, JDT Text
- Released support for null fields analysis (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=247564)
  Several new diagnostics:
     Potential null pointer access: The field {0} may
be null at this location
      Redundant null check: The field {0} can
only be null at this location
      Null comparison always yields false: The
field {0} can only be null at this location
      Redundant null check: The field {0} cannot
be null at this location
      Null comparison always yields false: The
field {0} cannot be null at this location
      Redundant assignment: The field {0} can
only be null at this location
      instanceof always yields false: The field
{0} can only be null at this location
- added support to set source attachment encoding
- improved preference UI for null annotation setup
- bug fixing
- Ready for 3.7.2 RC3
- M5 testing looks good so far. No serious issues found.

Ant
- In good shape for M5, no more items planned
- testing 3.7.2 / M5
- bug fixing

Debug
- launching connector investigation pushed to M6 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/335896
)
- In good shape for M5
- testing 3.7.2 / M5
- bug fixing

SWT
- GTK Cairo graphics work-to-date released but currently turned off by
default
- continuing GTK ToolBar work for overflow menus
- applied several patches to remove support for older unsupported GTK version
(prep. for GTK3 work)
- 4.2M5 testing underway with particular attention on GTK graphics
- some bug investigations on Cairo

Performance:
- No new regressions

Releng
-moved to Java 7 for windows tests
-tested new Jacoco libraries to verify that new version fixes issues while
running tests on Java 7
-opened CQs for JaCoco 0.5.6 for Juno
-bug fixing

Platform Workspace:
- inbox tracking
- ready for M5
- Bug 369522 - IContentTypeManagerTest#testPreferences fails in the recent
IBuilds [fixed]
- Bug 369493 - [backport][linked source] deleting a linked resource from
a read-only project leaves project in an undefined state [late backport
to 3.7.2]

PDE
- Tested 3.7.2 RC1 and 3.8 M5
- No more fixes planned for 3.7.2 / M5
- Inbox cleanup