[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Sept 14, 2005

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status
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Debug:
- async tree viewer:
  - working on backwards compatibility with 3.1
flexible hierarchy
    story and undergoing code reivew
  - plan to share our code/findings with workbench
team in early 3.2 M3
- breakpoint import/export feature has been released

  - available via import/export wizard and breakpoints
view
- breakpoint working set creation dialog now displays
breakpoints as
  grouped in existing breakpoints view
- orientation for new co-op student on debug team
(Gary Barbon)
  - began work on breakpoint refactoring test
suite
- prioritized launch enhancements to be considered
in 3.2 time frame:
  - improved context launch
  - move perspectives tab out of launch dialog
  - investigate flat namespace issues with launch
configs
  - provide a launch config to resource mapping
to better filter configs
    in UI

SWT:
- Its a girl! First 3.2 baby delivered.
- bug fixing
- back ported several bug fixes to 3.1.1
- first cut of new OpenGL API released on Carbon and
Windows (now
  supports OpenGL on Carbon)
- new SWT home page went public
  - added several tutorials
- investigating bilinear scaling of ImageData to improve
scaling quality
- implemented support for SWT.VIRTUAL in Tree on Windows
and mostly
  complete on GTK (API not being made public
until all ports complete)
- added support for saving animated GIFs
- investigated DBCS and BIDI support on carbon
- investigated native RichText and StyledText improvements


Rel. Eng.:
- training
- installed new UPS units in build lab to improve
milestone karma
- investigating ways to optimize build process
- bug fixing

Workspace team status:
- creation of projects in dev.eclipse.org for file
system API
  - org.eclipse.core.filesystem
  - project contents to be migrated soon from
internal repository
- writing javadoc of file system API
- investigation of nested projects
- investigation and prototyping of logical model integration
issues
- finishing touches on create/apply patch wizard improvements

PDE:
- enhancements to the product configuration editor
- prototyping a new OSGi launcher for pure OSGi bundle
development
- refactoring PDE launcher code to expose it as API
and make it more
  flexible (expected to be released next week)

UA:
- continued investigation of XML transforms for documents

Install/Update:
- working on improvements for managing connections
and content caching
- bug triage

Platform/JDT Text:
- released content assist participants to HEAD
  - added UI categories
  - added predictable ordering
  - configure proposal category ordering separately
from inclusion into
    default content assist command
- pushed down annotation navigation to Platform Text
- added annotation navigation to text editors
- continued content assist participant work (not released
in HEAD)
- continued investigating push down of Quick Assist/Fix
to Platform Text
- participated at ongoing JDT Summit
- bug fixing
- bug inbox tracking

JDT/UI:
- JDT summit
- made actions more working set aware: open/close
projects on working
  sets if parts of the projects are closed/open,
refresh on working set and
  Text and Java search on selected elements for
working sets
- split refactoring
  - released refactoring history infrastructure
  - investigations of a refactoring-aware catchup
action
  - investigations on how refactoring information
can be leveraged in
    compare
- refactoring
  - investigated in a more lightweight UI for
rename refactorings