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

[Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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Debug

- Continuing I/O console implementation.
Completed first code review.
-  Investigating ways to deal with
large numbers of launch configurations in the launch dialog
-  3.0.1 experimentation and fix
for run menu action ordering (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=55804)
-  Bug fixing
-  3.1 Planning

Ant

- Performance tests
-  Leak testing
-  3.0.1 builder bug
-  Code folding preferences for
the Ant editor


Core:

- 3.1 planning
- 3.0.1 fixing -> implementation
of new file encoding APIs
- investigation of problems with large-scale
applications



PDE:

- More 3.0.1 defects fixed (among them
a problem with launch when empty/incomplete manifests are present)
- M2 plan is up - currently focusing
on RCP tooling

Update:

- Investigating moving some portion
of the feature install task into the background

Help:
- Testing help with Windows SP2 (there
are some IE issues that need to be resolved, but overall Help works well)


Platform/JDT Text:


- continued performance testing
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increased number of performance tests to close to 20
         
      - implemented first mouse driven tests
         
      - scrolling and selection tests covering paint
performance
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extended performance test infrastructure with result evaluation
         
      - performance tests can be run and evaluated
locally
         
      - support red/green result presentation
- planning
- 3.0.1 bug fixing
- started working on editor support
for 1.5



Mac OS X:

- identifying Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) and
Java 1.5 (Tiger) issues
- investigating launching issues with
SWT apps on Mac OS X (eliminating java_swt)
- working on performance tests for
Mac OS X

Compare/Patch:

- switching to TextBuffer infrastructure
- fixing validate/edit issues
- started on improving Patch UI

JDT/UI:

- 3.0.1 bug fixing
- M1 testing & fixing
- 3.1 & M2 planning
- continued work on "Genericize
Collection Usages" refactoring
  o started implementing type
constraint infrastructure with improved
    performance and memory
characteristics.
- investigated refactorings wrt. J2SE
5.0 conformance
  o wrote test cases for inline
temp, promote temp, rename temp, self 
    encapsulate field and
surround with try refactorings that make
    use of new J2SE 5.0 features
- implemented automatic building of
project before serial version UID 
  generation and improved feedback
in UI
- investigated use of launch infrastructure
to run serial version UID 
  generation in separate VM