[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - 7 Mar 2012

[Curtis Windatt <Curtis_Windatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Planning Meeting Notes
7 March 2012

JDT UI / Text:
- added camelCase matching for the element name in Quick Outline and Quick
Type Hierarchy
- continued performance work on matching bracket support
- vacation

Ant
- Ant 1.8.3 test bundle is on the CQ (https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6169
)

Debug
- reverted default click behavior in Display view (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/68832
)
- improved error reporting for launch config names (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/280602
)
- monitor information on by default now in the JDT debugger (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/343039
)
- dynamic tracing has been enabled (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/372934
)

JDT Core:
   - Finishing touches to 3.6 planned items,
   - Chasing mysterious very sporadic compiler errors:
     https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372319
   - Inbox tracking, newsgroups etc.

Performance:
- Filed bug 373501

Releng:
-working through list of issues with 4.2 as primary build 
-troubleshooting issues running tests on Hudson slaves, thanks to webmaster
for fixing firewall issues

PDE:
- One API change still being considered (Equinox-AdapterHooks Bug 363733)
- Build test failures fixed by Tobias Oberlies
- CQ accepted for plugin editor enhancements
- Add required button added to feature based product editor
- API Tools dynamic tracing added
- Bug fixing

SWT
- merging XULRunner 10 Browser support into master
  - currently does not run on Linux due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720682
  - have workaround plan for Linux in hand if this is not fixed
in Mozilla in 10.0.x, but are holding off for now
- more BIDI improvements/fixes released
- new ColorDialog API for accessing custom colors on palette
- new FontDialog API for accessing chosen color (for win32)
- continuing ToolBar work on GTK
- will be creating separate 3.8/4.2 branches after M6

Platform Workspace:
- core.resources tests fail on JRE7 (Bug 370649) [in progress]
- Bug 366016 - Branches from other libs are displayed when trying to "Check
Out As" from Orbit [in progress]
- testing Gerrit in daily work with Platform Workspace contributions
- investigating how to configure Hudson Sandbox to work with Gerrit
- inbox tracking