[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Feb 18, 2004

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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Questions:
 - are dynamic project references going to occur ?
 - are we planning to deliver more updates on the 2.1.x front ?
 - shouldn't bugzilla decrement vote count when a problem is resolved ?


- Proposal for using plug-in version numbers
 
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/plugin-versioning.html

- Proposal for creating/using an Eclipse update site
 
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/update.html

(Warning: URLs may be split across lines.)

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 Outreach 
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 Status
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Platform UI:
- completing the RCP API implementation
- RCP tests
- RCP Theme support 
- work with clients of RCP to make enhancements to current support
- bug fixing
- updates to the Eclipse UI released in HEAD
- Out of the box experience continueing to add support for IIntro part
- 2.1.3 work started
- dynamic UI work ondoing
- focused on M7 quality

Debug:
- improved support for dynamic debug contexts (shared debug perspective).
  - support allows for mixed debug models in a single call stack.
- large arrays are automatically and recursively subdivided in the 
variables
  view via new support in IIndexedValue
- debug view opens automatically when a breakpoint is hit
- bug fixing/M7 release
- planning for M8

Ant:
- environment variables can now be defined/set for external tool builders
- bug fixing/M7 release
- planning for M8

Rel. Eng.:
- moved to using 3.0 M7 plugins in builds
- build notices and news will only be sent to platform-releng-dev as of
  N20040218
- performance testing in the builds 
  - waiting for final fixes and legal approval on including framework
    plug-ins in builds.
  - requesting volunteers from performance dynamic team take a look at
    what I have so far
- automating PDE doc generation, good progress.  Expect this to be in 
place
  before M8
- investigating running automated JUnit plug-in tests on Mac

Equinox:
- main theme is tieing up loose ends
- some security discussions started
- refining the IProduct and IBundleGroup spec/implementation

PDE Build:
- continued work updating to build bundles etc.

- released fixes for 2.1.3 build

Team/CVS:
- synchronize APIs will be released early in M8
  - basically we have generalized the CVS synchronization support and
    made it available for other plug-ins. This is a summary of the
    support these APIs will provide:
    - helps manage variant state for resources in the workspace, this 
helps
      build tools that manage remote state for local resources and 
resources
      that exist remotely but are not in the workspace
    - support for maintaining a dynamic sync model
    - UI components that can be used to show a sync model. This will allow
      showing the sync model in wizards, dialogs, editors...
    - ability to control the presentation model of the sync model
    - ability to contribute a page to the sync view
- Team and CVS milestone plans will be posted this week

Core:
- bug fixing
- shipping M7
- investigation of adaptor work to support JDT and Platform/UI plan items
- released preferences APIs to runtime project
- working on preferences tests and updating doc
- worked with releng/plug-in project contributor to release
  org.eclipse.core.resources HP-UX fragment into 2.1.3 stream builds
- work on (merged) Non-Uniform Encoding proposal
  - started adapting search, jdt.ui, compare to new API

Platform/JDT Text: 
- M7 testing and polishing
- M8 planning
- put last save reference provider fully into background
- now treating a task tag like a Java identifier instead of a word
- Quick Outline and Quick Hierarchy remember last size and position
- continued: syntax highlighting honors Java project preferences for task 
tags
- bug fixing

JDT Core:
- M8 priority is JDK 1.5 support addition (mostly generics)
- new index infrastructure released, not yet integrated
- closing on DOM AST rewrite (API reworked)
- tuning code formatter heuristic to split long lines
- new API for reconciling working copy and building DOM AST in one 
operation
- bug fixing

JDT UI:
- M7 test/fix pass
- planning milestone M8
- bug fixing
- worked on compressed Java search result tree
- cleaned up refactoring Change hierarchy
- recoded Refactoring UndoManager to remove JDT
  dependencies
- cleaned up API of common expression language

Platform Compare:
- bug fixing

SWT:
- Mac OS X
  - working on SWT benchmark
  - getting rid of second bouncing icon
- prototype virtual table running on Windows (unreleased)
- more Eclipse "new look"
- bug fixing for 2.1.3
- integrating IBM Middle East BIDI code
- consistency work for setSelection()
- bug fixes for WM2003 ("Windows Mobile 2003")