[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Nov 8, 2006

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion 
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Workspace:
- Plugin version numbers no longer match the version
we attach to the
  release overall: Eclipse 3.2.2, Eclipse 3.3.,
etc.  Should we re-brand
  our releases to avoid using these numbers?
I.e., change our plans,
  documentation, splash screen, etc, to refer
to "Eclipse Callisto Fall
  Update" or "Eclipse Europa"
rather than numbers?  This would harmonize
  with other Eclipse projects, and prevent the
desire to "cheat" and align
  our feature and plugin versions with a release
number that has lost its
  original meaning.

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 Outreach 
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**** Happy Birthday, Eclipse! ****

Platform/JDT Text:
- interview together with the Zurich team for the
Eclipse Magazine:
  - http://www.eclipsemag.net

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 Status 
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Platform UI:
- XSLT:
  - OSGi transformation
- M3 testing/verifying
- saving settings:
  - configuration level settings
  - sharing settings within a working set
- Windows Vista:
  - testing
- commands:
  - gathered feedback on menu API
  - learning about menus
  - investigating dynamic menus
- quick access:
  - persisting selections
- search dialogs:
- bug fixing and refactoring in Resource dialogs
- preparing patch for JDT (Type dialogs)
- status handling & error dialog story:
  - implementation
  - preparing long talk abstract about Status
Handling for EclipseCon
- viewers:
  - looking at Debug's async tree viewer framework
- data binding:
  - progress on observable map and tree

JDT UI:
- 3.3M3 testing and shipping
- preparing 5 year Eclipse anniversary presentation
- bugfixing:
  - improved presentation and filtering of derived
resources in refactoring
    preview
  - stale entries / wrong labels in open type
dialog
  - copy in call hierarchy

Platform/JDT Text:
- shipped 3.3 M3
- 3.3 M4 planning
- compiled wish list for JDT Core
- preparations for 5th Eclipse anniversary party
- inbox tracking

Runtime:
- contributed pde console view to pde/ui
- getting Orbit up and running
- added new bundles to Orbit from equinox-incubator
- preference work related to shared settings
- releasing lazy-start code
- splash screen work - prototype done for windows
using JNI
- work on API tooling
- make Wassim's day by adding JAR signing to the builds
- Eclipse 3.3 M3 work
- bug triage and fixing

Debug:
- M3 test pass
- bug fixing
- M4 planning

PDE:
- filtered tree added to the plug-in registry view
- work continues on Ctrl+O support for the source
pages of the
  manifest editor
- considering tooling support for breaking plug-ns
into smaller plug-ins
- 'Save As' implemented for both simple and composite
cheat sheet editors
- cheat sheet creation workflow:
  - adding support for automatically creating
cheat sheet extension from
    the cheat sheet editor
- lots of bug fixes
- brian is on honeymoon

User Assistance:
- work continues on dynamic content support across
the UA
  - help model fully supports it, working on
cheat sheets now
- work continues on the Ajax-based TOC tree view in
the help web application