[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Jan 7, 2004

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Happy New Year, everyone!

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 Discussion Topics
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Rel Eng:
- 3.0 M6 retrospective

PDE:
- need the final direction regarding the new OSGi
runtime handling of
  plugin.xml/fragment.xml/extensions.xml/manifest.mf
files 

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 Outreach 
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 Status
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Rel Eng:
- preparing for 2.1.3 maintenance builds (Eclipse
and WSWB) which start this
  week
- reviewed initial draft of PDE Build article/doc
with Core team.  Will work
  with Pascal to complete on his return from
vacation.
- in process of testing 3.0 M6 plugins for Eclipse
builds.  Testing script
  changes (removal of -ws, -os, -arch as arguments
to
  org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main to launch antRunner
application) in relation
  to bug 48937 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=48937).
- reviewing 2003, planning for 2004

Help:
- looking at implementation of roles in help

PDE:
- dynamic classpaths now the only way to selfhost
in PDE (removed 'Java Build
  Path Control' preference page) 
  - part of an effort to reduce the number of
ways you do things  in PDE
- work on Eclipse Forms continues
- defect fixing

Update:
- working on platform configuration redesign (hooking
platform configuration
  and update configurator)

JDT/UI:
- compiled top five items list for milestones M7 -
M9
- M7 planning
- bug fixing
- started work on refactoring API

Compare:
- introduced filters for compare with each other

Search:
- M7 planning
- worked on merging the new search implementation
into HEAD

Debug:
- creating M7 plan/prioritizing

Ant:
- creating M7 plan/prioritizing

Core:
- rev'd plug-in version of org.eclipse.core.boot for
R2.1.3 builds
- holidays