[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Aug 25, 2004

[Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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 Outreach 
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- "What is new in Eclipse 3.0?"
talk at the KDE World Summit 2004 in Stuttgart, Germany by Wassim Melhem

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 Status
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Debug

* Looking at alternate designs of Threads
& Monitors view
* Experimentation with a 2-page launch
wizard in place of launch configuration wizard
* 3.1 planning (now posted, including
M2 plan)
* Applied comments/suggestions from
1st code review of IO Console to the implementation
* Migrated "MessageConsole"
to use the new "IOConsole" implementation
* Bug fixing

Ant

* Leak testing
* 3.1 planning (now posted, including
M2 plan)
* Performance tests
* Bug fixing


JDT Core

- working on new DOM Parser
- improving code assist to support 1.5
- improving support for 1.5 signatures
- bug fixing (3.1 and 3.0.1)
- M2 and 3.1 plans posted



Help

- Investigating some problems detected
on AIX with 2.1.3 and 3.0 streams
- Log messages in 3.1 stream are now
English (not translated)
- Investigating strange search problems
in some locales

Update

- the install wizard performs downloading
of plugins in a background job (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=66060)

(The main work is done, but I still
have to polish a couple of things, such as selectively downloading optional
features, and a few minor issues).


JDT/UI

- 3.0.1 bug fixing
- 3.1 & M2 planning
- added support to copy/paste Java
elements into external 
  applications
- improved placement of members in
Pull Up and Introduce 
  Factory refactorings
- continued work on Convert Raw Types
refactoring
- continued work on making JDT/UI J2SE
5.0 aware
  o compiled list of J2SE 5.0
issues in the refactoring area
  o support for Pull Up members
between generic types
- added a Quick Fix to convert old
style for loops over arrays 
  into enhanced for loops
- added performance tests for Package
Explorer
  o open view part
  o selection changes
  o expand project
- worked on refactoring performance
tests
  o rename type


Performance

- worked on performance API and infrastructure


Team/CVS Status

- 3.0.1 bug verification
- 3.1 bug fixing
- conversion of performance tests to
new framework


Platform/JDT Text

- publish plan
- bug fixing
- released syntax highlighting for Java
1.5 (depending on compiler settings)
- continued performance tests
- contributed to Performance Test dynamic
team
- started working on consolidated text
manipulation infrastructure at the level of file buffers



Rel. Eng.

-investigating eclipse startup timing
for performance tracking
-graphing download sizes over builds
-bug triage