Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Oct 15, 2003

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Discussion Item:
- Wider use of Equinox

Equinox Status:
- Summary: Equinox is good enough for wider use (see discussion item)
- good progress on several fronts with most M4 items complete
- multi-version support is the notable exception but that is expect this week
- lost a bit on startup performance but expect to have that and more back this week.
- also good progress on running existing applications (e.g., WSAD) on top of Equinox.  Most of the trouble is us learning how to run the other apps.
- Progress on OSGi classloading RFCs expected this week.  This covers fragments, modules, and a host of other issues.

Mike Wilson/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA Sent by: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 10/14/2003 05:14 PM Please respond to eclipse-dev

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(Several teams did not send in status.) 

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 Discussion Topics 
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Rel Eng: 
- 3.0 M4 build retrospective 

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 Outreach 
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- Zurich lab attended the Eclipse Plug-in Clinic at the Swiss Workshop Days 
  for two complete days. 
  - pictures at:  http://www.weinand.org/CampEclipse 
- Kai gave a half-day tutorial about extending eclipse at the Swiss Workshop 
  Days 
- Erich gave a talk at the Technical University of Vienna: "Eclipse More 
  Than a Java IDE" 

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 Status 
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Rel Eng: 
- bug fixing 
- builds now use plug-ins and startup.jar from 3.0 M4 
- investigate ways to determine which teams have submitted change other than 
  from map files 
- article on automating builds ongoing 

Platform/JDT Text: 
- finished M4 
- bug fixing: 
  - Javadoc formatting performance problems solved 
  - still working on linked resources support for file buffers 
- started planning M5 
- continued Javadoc spell checking 

JDT UI: 
- finished M4 
- bug fixing 
- started planning M5 

Platform Core: 
- Concurrency: 
  - bug fixing 
  - preferences were added for future use to allow for trade-offs between 
    concurrent operations and user's hardware performance 
- Xerces: 
  - sent mail to eclipse-dev asking people to begin converting to JAXP 
  - have converted most of the Platform/Core code to JAXP 
- other 
  - released new code using java.nio classes to deal with the workspace lock file 
  - working on M5 milestone plan