[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Nov 26, 2003

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(sorry about being late getting this out. I'm off
site this week and next week.)

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 Discussion Topics
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JDT/Core:
- Build timing wasn't optimal for Europeans if needing
to react to late bugs. - Proposal:
  - no warm up build, tuesday is the beginning
(warm up is previous nightly
    build on monday night)
  - testing day is wednesday (instead of thursday)
  - thursday is fix(&test fixes) day
  - friday is sanity checking
  - should get more builds during days so as
to maximize efficiency in all
    contributing time zones:
    - build every 6 hours: midnight, 6am,
noon, 6pm  (or slightly shifted for
      Beaverton?)

Debug/Ant:
- (M5) We felt that the build test/fix schedule is
too tight to do effective
  testing. We ending up investigating/fixing
critical problems which reduced
  our testing capability. We'd like to see the
test pass occurr Wednesday, and 
  the fix pass occurr Thursday. Perhaps there
should be integration builds all 
  week at midnight, starting on Monday.

Rel Eng:
- 3.0 M5 build retrospective

PDE:
- Embedded web browser coverage - when will it be
OK to make a dependency on
  the widget and not have any backup plans 

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 Outreach 
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Outreach:
- Dorian Birsan held an Eclipse presentation for 3rd
year students of McGill
  University, Montreal. It was well attended
(around 100 students) and it was
  a nice experience to give students an idea
about how a large open source
  projects really works. Eclipse T-shirts were
given for good questions during
  Q/A period.

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 Status
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Platform/JDT Text:
- shipping M5
- bug fixing
- planning M6, proto plan published on team page

JDT/UI:
- shipping M5
- bug fixing
- started memory profiling pass
- M6 planning

Platform Search:
- shipping M5
- M6 planning

Core:
- code is frozen for Equinox runtime merge
- in the process of merging Equinox runtime code from
equinox repository
  into HEAD on dev.eclipse.org
- got M5 out the door after some last minute fixes
- Xerces:
  - all plug-ins in the SDK have removed their
dependancies on the
    org.apache.xerces plug-in

JDT Core status:
- investigating a few more fixes for 2.1.3
- prioritizing fix effort for M6
- need to check performance and memory consumption
(overall slowering noticed
  since M4)

Debug/Ant:
- M6 focus is on bug fixing

Status:
- released M5 plugins, startup.jar and special version
of 
  org.eclipse.pde.build which can handle building
OSGi based features and
  plugins into org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder.
 We will start using this new
  version to run Nightly builds as of 20031126.
- investigating ways of furthering build automation
and making build
  management available to committers.
- bug fixing in areas of test framework, releng tests.

Help:
- M5-related work.
- Bug fixing.
- Experimenting with launching out of process embedded
help browser as a
  Platform application.

Install/Update:
- bug fixes
- discussions with the equinox team on platform configuration
issues
- investigating some new requirements

PDE:
- PDE JUnit and runtime workbench launchers now have
the new Environment tab.
- Bug fixing.
- 3.0 M6 plan is up.
- Writing new PDE JUnit test cases - will cover PDE
project import, export,
  creation, and launching.

Platform UI:
- M5 went well for us.
- Things we are working on:
  - Expose CoolBarManager as API in JFace and
use it in workbench configurer
    APIs (student)
  - complete RCP API implementation (some methods
are only implemented as far
    as needed to meet the current IDE requirements)
  - bug fixing
  - New Look still prototyping some things
  - M6 plan is mainly a stability and bug fixing
release

SWT:
- significant progress made on SWT/Swing interop on
Windows