Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Mar 1, 2006

[Sonia Dimitrov <Sonia_Dimitrov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rel. Eng:

-3.2M5eh?
-investigating optimatizations in build
process to reduce overall build time
-discussions re:  Callisto update
site with Platform Core
-helping other projects with update
sites, use of qualifiers
-EclipseCon preparation
-bug triage, fixing
-build lab maintenance

Mike Wilson/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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 Discussion Topic 
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Platform/JDT Text: 
- do we want/need a 'polish' dynamic team like we had one for 3.1?

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 Status 
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Platform/JDT Text: 
- fixed save operation's handling of characters that cannot be mapped
  using the given encoding 
- continued with quick assist support 
- collected polish items 
- eclipseCon tutorial preparation (in progress)
- bug fixing 
- bugzilla inbox tracking 

JDT UI: 
- preview in Clean Up wizard 
- new Clean Ups: 
  - qualify static and non-static method accesses
  - remove 'this' qualifier for non-static field and method accesses
  - make 'final' where possible (private fields, parameters, local
    variables) 
- new Quick Assist: 
  - change modifiers of variable to final
- experimenting on decorators on CU /classfile if class or interface is
  in file 
- released wizard to automatically fix deprecations
- added ability to perform supertype analysis to Pull Up refactoring
- enabled AST recovery for refactorings affecting only 1 file:
  - allows refactorings in files with syntax errors
  - please watch out for problems and file bugs
- Java search: added filter for potential matches
- investigated memory leaks 
- UI polishing 
- bug fixing 
- EclipseCon preparation 
- released equals & hashCode patch for core._expression_

Debug: 
- bug fixing 
- M6 Planning: 
  - posted draft plans for debug platform and jdt debug
- investigating performance test failures: 
  - discovered the toString() computation is not slower, but the test
i 
    now measuring more updates 
- added "fitlered tree" support in launch dialog
- attended DSDP meeting: 
  - gave progress report on enhanced debug platform, received feedback
    from early adopters 

Workspace: 
 - grouping by date in history view 
 - working with adopters of EFS file systems 
 - EclipseCon, Eclipse in Motion prep 

JDT Core: 
- M6 planning 
- improving null reference analysis (recognize more patterns)
- for 1.5 targets (or when toggling preference for Inlining 
  Finally Blocks), the compiler is inlining finally blocks at 
  every exit point inside a try statement. With fix for bug 
  128705, the inlining got smarter, and identical exit point 
  are now sharing the same inlined finally block (to be truly 
  identical, exit points must denote the same break/continue 
  label, or be return from void method, or return the same 
  constant or null value. 
- fix for bug 127628 required the index version to be incremented. 
  Indexes will be automatically regenerated upon subsequent 
  search queries (accounting for indexing notification in 
  search progress dialogs). 
- bug fixing 

Platform UI: 
- general: 
  - properties view enhancements 
  - high contrast features 
  - ICU4J: scheduled integration of ICU v3.4.3, replacement plugin
  - update field assist support and example to support latest proposed
    visuals 
  - API reviews 
  - look into editor lifecycle support for the common navigator
  - preparation for EclipseCon 
  - UI polish 
- commands: 
  - performance work on handlers (Bug 126901)
- common navigator: 
  - discussed M6 plan and API changes with Michael Elder
- JFace: 
  - proposal to push field assist policy into JFace API
- logical model support: 
  - continued working on save lifecycle support
- performance: 
  - examining M5 results, identifying false positive results 
    (e.g. some don't have 3.1 baseline results)

PDE: 
- added support for the new <?eclipse version="3.2?>:
  - this instruction is needed only for developers to take advantage
of 
    the extension namespace support
  - new plug-in projects are generated with this instruction
- investigating performance of opening manifest editors and building the
  state 
- added support to reload the target platform directly from the target
  editor 
- splash screen section of the product editor now allows the customization
  of an embedded startup progress bar/message
- Feature Import wizard revamped 
- SDWest preparation 
- bug fixing 

User Assistance: 
- work continues on dynamic content search issues (refiltering the
  search results) 
- welcome: 
  - Universal Welcome in today's build (using classic Eclipse theme)
  - work still ongoing 
- cheat sheets: 
  - flushing out composite cheat sheet flow of control
  - working on remaining composite cheat sheet work items
- linkability: 
  - working on the link authoring utility (will be published on the
    UA home page) 
  - started adding live help links in various places of the SDK
    documentation: 
    - the links that open dialogs (most of them) critically depend
on the 
      ability to see the help window while in the modal
dialog (bug 95478) 
    - we have re-enabled the Help code that uses separate Display
to show 
      the Help window 

Update: 
- investigating the possibility of adding update site digest support to
  minimize downloading large number of feature JARs for site browsing
and 
  searching (to support Callisto downloads and searches)
- file handle or memory leak suspected in Update that prevents full
  Callisto download -- investigating 
- bug triage _______________________________________________
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