[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes Nov 9, 2011

[Curtis Windatt <Curtis_Windatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Planning Meeting Notes
9 November 2011

JDT UI, JDT Text
- EclipseCon Europe attendance
- started to work on showing matching brackets in Overview ruler
- started to work on Clean Up that converts multiple catch blocks to a
single multi-catch block and vice versa
- bug fixing

SWT
- continuing work on XULRunner 7, Cairo graphics, and TreeCursor
- 3.8-stream bug fixing, including:
  - 363084 - NPE can occur when closing Browser in detached view

JDT/Core
- Stephan Hermann (JDT/Core committer) represented us in EclipseCon Europe
 and gave a presentation on null annotations support (planned for
M4 and
 prototyped earlier in 3.7 cycle)
- Progress on key M4 plan items: pre-built indexes support, null annotations
 support.
- M4 planning, bug fixes, inbox tracking, newsgroups etc.

Platform Workspace
- all 3.7.2 bugs fixed, recently fixed bugs:
   bug 363158 - [Backport] NPE getting module children when
not retrieved by deferred
   bug 361930 - [Backport][Repo view] Module disappears
in CVS Repositories view
   bug 354593 - [backport] NPE in CompareEditorInput.setDirty
in Eclipse 3.7 [ID-MAMS9]
   bug 361417 - [backport][Edit] memory leak in compare
with each other
- Bug 345668 - Modify Releng Release tool to work with Git, working from
the scratch on the cvs branch, we are targetting at having working tool
for our basic scenario in M4 and when the process is defined (see 345668,
comment 16), we will modify the tool to support the process
- Bug 345669 - Ensure Copyright Checker/Updater works with Git, scheduled
for M5
- Bug 352016 - [Sync View] Team synchronization filtering [in progress]
- core.resources calls will be resumed this week

PDE
- Fixed regression in launch configuration (bug 352808 and 356853)
- Fixed persistence problem in target platform changes (bug 362602)
- Two 3.7.2 fixes, two bugs still open
- Bug fixing, triage

Ant
- bug fixing / triage

Debug
- bug fixing / triage
- code review for viewer branch: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=161435

Releng
-Attended EclipseCon Europe last week
-Met lots of people, attended some great talks, ate some nice German pretzels,
my talks went well
-Good feedback on the IBM booth which included pictures of the Eclipse
family from over the years.  You can see them here
https://plus.google.com/photos/108005684647521457105/albums/5658267552042814769
-Meeting with the Eclipse foundation etc regarding Long Term Build support
-trying to catch up on Bugzilla backlog