Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Jan 28, 2004

[Kai-Uwe Maetzel <kai-uwe_maetzel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Platform/JDT Text:

- preparing EclipseCon tutorial, talk,
and poster
- improved plug-in dependency analysis
used to sort contributions
  such as actions and hovers, results
in better performance
- improvements to the generalized content
assist infrastructure (content assist
  usable on text and combos)
- find/replace dialog now supports content
assist affordance
- introduced EditorUI as facade to the
various means necessary to deal with annotations
- investigate improvements to visual
presentation of linked positions and navigation targets
- replaced "Comment" and "Uncomment"
with "Toggle Comment" action in 
  Java editor, the old actions
are still available to be bound to keys
- bug fixing

Kai

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 Discussion Topics 
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 Outreach 
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- Kai and Erich gave a talk at OOP in Munich about the 
  Eclipse Ecosystem with a focus on using Eclipse for 
  rich client apps. 

EclipseCon: 
- Join us for EclipseCon 2004: 
  - February 2-5, 2004 in Anaheim, CA 
  - http://www.eclipsecon.org/ 

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 Status 
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Debug: 
- Integrated & reviewed core (non-UI) portion of contributed source
lookup 
  facilities to the debug platform 
- WTK now works with Eclipse Java debugger 
  - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=30816
- refactoring support for Java launch configurations (in progress for
  breakpoints) 
- continued work with UI team on dynamic debug perspective
- continued experimentation with run/debug actions in context menu
- continued work on enhanced runtime classpath/bootpath support
- bug fixing 

Ant: 
- EclipseCon poster preparation 
- Ant editor enhancements 
- Ant view, editor, tabs, etc., now use the "Ant model" provided
with Ant 1.6 

Core: 
- auto-refresh plug-in integrated into builds
- work started on core contribution to Dirk's common _expression_ language
  proposal 
- work continues on user settings (m7 goal): 
  - base implementation 
  - working on backwards compatibility layer
  - need to update design doc to reflect latest changes
- worked on new (merged) Encoding proposal and implementation
- general planning and review of current work in relation to 3.0 plan

Runtime/Equinox: 
- work on running without a workspace (-nodata)
- work on RCP demo for EclipseCon 

Rel. Eng.: 
- investigating how teams can contribute performance measurements/tests
  in JUnit tests 
- preparation for WSWB 3.0 builds 
- testing fixes in NL tool 
- EclipseCon preparation 
- investigating PDF doc generation 

SWT: 
- preparing for EclipseCon 
- planning (3.0, bug list for 2.1.3) 
- yet more Eclipse new look and feel 
- working on "TrayIcon" API (glitches in our thinking)
- bug fixing 

Platform UI: 
- completing the RCP API implementation 
- working on sample RCP app to test API 
- work with clients of RCP to make enhancements to current support
- bug fixing 
- upgrade background progress support and UI 
- lots of New Look enhancements: 
  - dockable fast view bar 
  - floating toolbar (beta) 
  - perspective switching 
- out of the box experience: 
  - put in hooks for Dejans team to add an Intro/Welcome experience

Platform/Compare: 
- bug fixing 

JDT/UI: 
- bug fixing 
- preparing for EclipseCon (posters and talks)
- smart fields are now used in JDT/UI dialogs
- hover based error reporting for fields 
- code formatter: 
  - worked on improving user interface to control white 
    space settings 
  - support to open default profiles in read-only mode
- rename support for change method signature 
- type hierarchies created for packages now show interfaces
- added visibility category to sort members  
- wrote API proposal for AST Rewrite 
- Refactoring API: 
  - worked on clean-up of Change hierarchy
  - rewrote change execution code and "rollback" support
- added new search to find all exception occurrences. Selecting
  an exception in a catch clause or throws list and searching for
  occurrences will find all expressions that throw that exception
- worked on Java background search. Can be enabled via
  the preference Java->Work In Progress->Search->Use new
  Search View 

JUnit: 
- refactoring participants of JUnit launch configs

Team: 
- preparing for EclipseCon 
- continuing work on the synchronization framework
- bug fixing 

Help: 
- EclipseCon poster preparation 
- Help Search results from TOCs in disabled activities shown after topics
  from enabled activities (in a browser), or filtered out (in IDE
search view) 
- Help index made workspace independent - moved to platform configuration
  location 
- bug fixing 

PDE: 
- EclipseCon poster preparation 
- started work on the new editor foundation based on the new Eclipse Forms
- reworked update site editor to improve the flow (so that it looks nice
at 
  EclipseCon :-) 
- hovering over the icon in the Error Log shows a popup with the first
few 
  lines of the exception stack trace - can preview without opening
the 
  properties 
- bug fixing 

Update: 
- continuing on the startup/configuration rework