[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Jan 19, 2005

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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 Outreach 
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 Status
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Debug:
- J2SE5:
  - support for autoboxing in Java debug evaluations
- Built to last:
  - support for backgroud content generation in variables view is ready --
    will release after integration build for futher testing
  - API review for debug platform memory view and associated extension
    point are complete, implemention (contribution) pending
  - bug fixing
- Ease of use:
  - support for recursion in Java logical structures - i.e. a structure's
    return value is resolved to its logical structure, if any
  - reviewed breakpoint group API and extension point -- changed from
    "container factories" to "organziers"
  - migrated breakpoint group implementation to be based on working sets
    (replaces "custom groups")

Ant:
- Ease of use:
  - cleaned up Ant runtime properties page
  - fixes in the Ant debugger for improved variable presentation
    (stack frame re-use)
- Built to last:
  - bug fixing

JDT/UI:
- J2SE 5.0:
  - static import can now be grouped using an own group.
    Also added grouping of all 'other' imports
  - add unresolved method to generic type quick fix
  - converted Override Method to AST rewriting and bindings
    (necessary to handle new language features correctly)
  - continued work on extract interface to support static
    imports, varargs and annotations
  - made rename type fully 5.0 aware
  - started implementation of workspace global type model 
- Refactoring:
  - continued worked on supporting Copy/Paste participants
- misc:
  - made JavaElementLabels and JavadocContentAccess API to get 
    Javadoc from source
  - WYSIWYG build path configuration wizard (part of the new
    Java project wizard)

Platform/JDT Text:
- added RTL support to Javadoc view
- started working on support for Browser widget in hovers
- continued evaluation of "Hippie Completion" contribution
- investigated JDT Text performance test problems (still in progress)
- bug fixing
- vacation

JDT/Core:
- added support for generic methods/constructors search
- added API for creating a type hierarchy on a region independently
  of a project
- added API to validate a type variable name
- investigating batch compiler performance
- work on converting Java model operation from deprecated JDOM to
  AST rewrite
- bug fixing

PDE:
- 3.1 M5 plan is up
- work on feature editor continues
- working with the runtime team in preparation for the new manifest
  changes scheduled for release next week
- New Eclipse Product Wizard finished (but not released yet)
- work on the eclipse product configuration editor has commenced
- bug fixes

User Assistance:
- more progress in the new Help view; dynamic help added to context
  help (uses search to find useful links for the current context)
- federated search integrated into the Help view
- information search separated from the workbench artifact search:
  - Help tab will be removed from the Search dialog, as well as Help
    working set; 
  - that will make org.eclipse.help.ide plug-in obsolete (we will not
    ship it in 3.1)
- checking in the XHTML support this week:
  - will follow up with instructions on how to author intro content
    in XHTML

Update:
- first pass at documenting the internal format of platform.xml
- bug fixes

Rel. Eng.:
- changes to build scripts in maintenance and 3.1 stream to generate
  download pages which leverage eclipse.org's mirror finder.
- writing tool to modify some existing download pages to use
  eclipse.org's mirror finder
- troubleshooting problems in performance tests (bug 75755, 81816)
- investigating hardware/tooling requirements to run JUnit and
  performance component tests in parallel
- releng welcomes cake contributions from visiting teams
- planning, prioritizing releng tasks and bugs