[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Nov 29, 2006

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Outreach
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Platform/JDT Text:
- Dani talks at iX conference "Bessere Software!"


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 Status 
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Platform UI:
- sharing settings:
  - can now transfer workbench layout and working
sets when switching
    workspaces
- XSLT transforms:
  - finishing up
- search dialogs:
  - resource dialog bug fixing
- status handling:
  - improving status handling implementation
  - hooking up into Eclipse
  - improving test project
- EFS:
  - bug fixing
- editors:
  - background save proposal
- viewers:
  - API work/refactoring
- commands:
  - continued menu API work
- search based navigation
- bug fixing

Platform/JDT Text:
- spell checking:
  - reworked code that loads dictionaries
  - improved performance
  - improved preference page
- prepared talk
- committed the contributed 'showing invisible characters'
feature
  (available in latest I-build)
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking

JDT Core:
- bug fixing
- tuned compiler semantics for unchecked cast detection.
As a 
  consequence, more warnings should be issued
[106451,165143]
- raw type warnings are now also diagnosed for cast
types.
- improved compiler diagnosis for type hiding to now
report: 
  member type hiding type parameters, nested
types hiding 
  other accessible types in scope (direct enclosing
are 
  already reported as errors).
- compiler is now more resilient with duplicate local
type 
  declarations; thus allowing further operation
to still be 
  carried out accurately (codeselect, completion,
search, 
  DOM AST ops) [165662]
- new Java Model element interface has been added
as common 
  supertype for ICompilationUnit and IClassFile
[125504]
- addressed compiler regression for ambiguous generic

  method invocation [163370] - more work needed
- in progress:
  - negociating richer completion context with
JDT/UI,Text,APT 
  [110181]

JDT UI:
- added 'Referenced Libraries' node to group all libraries
in the package
  explorer view (enable in the view menu)
- removed mandatory saving of dirty editors for refactorings
where possible
- made Rename refactoring cancellable when started
in editor or via API
- investigated DecoratedLabelProvider bugs
- bug fixing

Debug:
- working on design of simplified launching for novice
users (@see bug 74480)
- polishing mixed mode launching and support for multiple
launchers
  (@see bug 157059)
- continued work on pluggable details area in Variables
view (@see bug 75852)
- bug fixing:
   - 3.2.2 and 3.3

Workspace:
- reviewed EFS article for EclipseZone
- working on adding asynchronous initialization and
updating to 
  Compare editors
- released contribution to prompt when comitted resources
have errors
  or warnings
- investigating how to show annotations in multi-page
editors
- 3.2.2 fixes
- bug triage

Runtime:
- investigating performance improvements for startup
with signed JARs
- continued work on API tooling
- new launcher work
- moving supplement bundle to be nested in osgi project
- bug fixing
- bug triage
- vacation