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    <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF">3.1 
      Development Effort - Previous Milestone Plans</font></font></b></td>
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      <h3><a NAME="Milestone_Planning"></a>Milestone M4</h3>
      <h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Original Plan</h4>

      <h4>Top Five</h4>
      <ul>
        <li> complete performance tests</li>
        <li>rework preferences</li>
        <li>finish file buffer operations</li>
        <li>progress in consolidating the platform</li>
        <li>improve NLS tooling</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Committed items</h4>
      <h5>Cross-team issues</h5>
      <ul>
        <li> consolidate Ant, Platform UI, WTP, VE feedback and issues</li>
        <li> editor embedding and splitting 
          <ul>
            <li>provide prototype for services architecture</li>
            <li>investigate how splitting would look like in a &quot;component&quot; 
              world</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> participate in preferences dynamic team</li>
        <li> participate in the action contribution dynamic team</li>
        <li> work on and adapt to the new undo story</li>
        <li>migrate to the changed semantics of IPath</li>
        <li> finish pushing down formatter to JDT Core</li>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Testing</h5>
      <ul>
        <li> complete performance tests for the published <a href="performance_scenarios.html">set 
          of scenarios</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Component work</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>rework preferences 
          <ul>
            <li>find all sharing scenarios (appearance, behavior, hovering, etc. 
              ....)</li>
            <li>functional categorization</li>
            <li>check how WTP and other larger clients fit in</li>
            <li>implement different scenarios</li>
            <li>initiate review by usability team</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>finish file buffer operations 
          <ul>
            <li>solve memory issues</li>
            <li>improve test coverage</li>
            <li>integrate with ltk core change architecture</li>
            <li>solve typing raise conditions</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>add document partitioning to StorageDocumentProvider 
          <ul>
            <li>[investigate] exploit the existing filebuffer extension points</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Java editor 
          <ul>
            <li>initial color settings</li>
            <li>enable semantic highlighting by default</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Default text editor 
          <ul>
            <li>everything we push down while consolidating the platform needs 
              to have a surfacing new function in the default text editor </li>
            <li>pushing down spell checking allows us to check whether the push 
              down of the quick fix infrastructure is successful<br>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Platform consolidation</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>create plug-in for 'Editing Source Scope' 
          <ul>
            <li>move Occurrences annotation type definition and annotation specification 
              down to ltk.ui or editors.ui</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>push down Ctrl-Click 
          <ul>
            <li>[investigate] general resolution infrastructure</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>push down annotation navigation</li>
        <li>push down spell checking</li>
        <li>start adopting and pushing down Quick Fix infrastructure<br>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Code cleanup</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>fix IEditorHelper 
          <ul>
            <li>use names that are self-describing and don't hamper further development</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>finish work on new functions not yet API<br>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>NLS tooling</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>improve Properties File editor 
          <ul>
            <li>fix reported syntax coloring issues</li>
            <li>navigate from selected key and value in a properties file to the 
              location of usage in Java editor and Plug-in Manifest editor</li>
            <li>spell checking</li>
            <li>ensure correct ISO-8859-1 encoding when writing a properties file</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>support new nls features in Class file editor 
          <ul>
            <li>coloring</li>
            <li>hovering</li>
            <li>navigation</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>improve Externalize Strings wizard 
          <ul>
            <li>spell checking</li>
            <li>ensure correct ISO-8859-1 encoding when writing a properties file</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>investigate whether we can improve NLS tooling to support the string 
          externalization approach used in TextOperationAction</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Permanent items</h4>
      <ul>
        <li>bug fixing</li>
        <li>increase correctness test coverage</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Proposed items</h4>
      <ul>
        <li> implement a SaveAs dialog that allows to save inside and outside 
          of the workspace 
          <ul>
            <li>involved parties: Platform UI, SWT, send patch to Platform UI</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>lazy loading of document setup participants</li>
        <li>allow for extending file buffers with custom implementations</li>
        <li>allow templates in the default text editor</li>
        <li>generalize and push down InformationDispatchAction</li>
        <li>generalize push down quick view support 
          <ul>
            <li>Outline presentation control, AbstractInformationControl and related</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>[investigate] Consolidate SourceViewerInformationControl and all of 
          its copies</li>
        <li>[investigate] allow for an outline mode in the default text editor 
          <ul>
            <li>folding just based on indentation</li>
            <li>opens the way for using QuickOutline in the default text editor</li>
          </ul>
          <br>
        </li>
      </ul>

      <h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Finished</h4>
      <h5>Cross-team issues</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>participate in preferences dynamic team</li>
        <li>migrate to the changed semantics of IPath</li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Testing</h5>
      <ul>
        <li> complete performance tests for the published <a href="performance_scenarios.html">set 
          of scenarios</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Component work</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>rework preferences 
          <ul>
            <li>find all sharing scenarios (appearance, behavior, hovering, etc. 
              ....)</li>
            <li>functional categorization</li>
            <li>check how WTP and other larger clients fit in</li>
            <li>implement different scenarios</li>
            <li>initiate review by usability team</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Java editor 
          <ul>
            <li>enable semantic highlighting by default</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Platform consolidation</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>create plug-in for 'Editing Source Scope'</li>
        <li>push down Ctrl-Click 
          <ul>
            <li>[investigate] general resolution infrastructure</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Code cleanup</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>fix IEditorHelper 
          <ul>
            <li>use names that are self-describing and don't hamper further development</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>NLS tooling</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>improve Properties File editor 
          <ul>
            <li>fix reported syntax coloring issues</li>
            <li>navigate from selected key and value in a properties file to the 
              location of usage in Java editor and Plug-in Manifest editor</li>
            <li>spell checking</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>support new nls features in Class file editor 
          <ul>
            <li>coloring</li>
            <li>hovering</li>
            <li>navigation</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      
      
      <h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Not Finished / Deferred to M5</h4>
      <h5>Cross-team issues</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>participate in the action contribution dynamic team</li>
        <li>finish pushing down formatter to JDT Core</li>
        <li>work on and adapt to the new undo story</li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Platform consolidation</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>(move Occurrences annotation type definition and annotation specification down to ltk.ui or editors.ui)</li>
        <li>(push down annotation navigation)</li>
        <li>push down spell checking</li>
        <li>start adopting and pushing down Quick Fix infrastructure<br>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>NLS tooling</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>improve Properties File editor 
          <ul>
            <li>ensure correct ISO-8859-1 encoding when writing a properties file</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>improve Externalize Strings wizard 
          <ul>
            <li>spell checking</li>
            <li>ensure correct ISO-8859-1 encoding when writing a properties file</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      
      
      <h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Deferred For Now</h4>
      <h5>Component work</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>add document partitioning to StorageDocumentProvider 
          <ul>
            <li>[investigate] exploit the existing filebuffer extension points</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Java editor 
          <ul>
            <li>initial color settings</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h5>NLS tooling</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>investigate whether we can improve NLS tooling to support the string externalization approach used in TextOperationAction</li>
      </ul>


      <h4>Testing</h4>
      <ul>
        <li> The <a href="testing/testpass_M4.html">test plan</a> for the M4 test 
          pass.</li>
      </ul>
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      <hr>
      <h3>Milestone M3</h3>
      <h4>Original Plan</h4>
      <h5>Committed items</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>performance 
          <ul>
            <li> continue performance tests 
              <ul>
                <li>reflect about scope and applicability of test results (annotate 
                  test cases accordingly)</li>
                <li>complete performance tests for the published <a href="performance_scenarios.html">set 
                  of scenarios</a></li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> improve performance 
              <ul>
                <li>e.g., new line at end of commented StyledText.java</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>continue with file buffer issues as outlined in the 3.1 plan 
          <ul>
            <li>adapt existing code to document rewrite sessions 
              <ul>
                <li>improve formatting performance</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li>simplify temporal suspension of document partitioners for performance 
              reasons 
              <ul>
                <li>investigate lazy document partitioners</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>continue with encoding issues listed in the 3.1 plan 
          <ul>
            <li>integrate the 'Change Encoding...' action with the status editor 
              shown in case of encoding errors</li>
            <li>re-establish encoding support for external files</li>
            <li>react to resource encoding changes in FileDocumentProvider 
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>work with the Web Tools Platform project in order to improve overall 
          integration with Platform Text and the platform in general</li>
        <li>Java editor 
          <ul>
            <li>implement Search and Mark implementer occurrences</li>
            <li>revisit out-of-the-box colors and styles in the Java editor</li>
            <li>enable semantic syntax highlight per default</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>move Javadoc formatting to JDT Core</li>
        <li>start work on improved string externalization</li>
        <ul>
          <li>navigate from selected key in Java editor to definition in properties 
            file editor</li>
          <li>show value when hovering over key in Java editor</li>
          <ul>
            <li>show value as is in the properties file</li>
            <li><img src="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/jdt-ui-home/images/glass.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="10" width="10"> 
              show value as returned by the accessor class</li>
          </ul>
          <li>syntax coloring for Properties File Editor (comments, keys and values) 
          <li>provide separate double-click strategy for key and value part in 
            Properties File editor 
          <li>navigate from selected key and value in properties file to location 
            in Java editor and Plug-in Manifest editor 
          <li>spell checking in Properties File editor and Externalize Strings 
            wizard 
        </ul>
        <li>cross team issues 
          <ul>
            <li>contribute to the action contribution rework dynamic team</li>
            <li>contribute to the preferences rework dynamic team</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>PR triage </li>
        <ul>
          <li> PR that we definitively will not tackle for 3.1 will be resolved 
            as LATER</li>
          <li>effectively communicate the guide lines the team uses to the community</li>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <h5>Permanent items</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>bug fixing</li>
        <li>increase correctness test coverag</li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Proposed items</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>investigate lazy loading of document setup participants</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Finished items/To be continued in M4</h4>
      <ul>
        <li>performance 
          <ul>
            <li> continue performance tests 
              <ul>
                <li>reflect about scope and applicability of test results (annotate 
                  test cases accordingly)</li>
                <li>complete performance tests for the published <a href="performance_scenarios.html">set 
                  of scenarios</a></li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> improve performance 
              <ul>
                <li>e.g., new line at end of commented StyledText.java</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>continue with file buffer issues as outlined in the 3.1 plan 
          <ul>
            <li>adapt existing code to document rewrite sessions 
              <ul>
                <li>improve formatting performance</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li>simplify temporal suspension of document partitioners for performance 
              reasons 
              <ul>
                <li>investigate lazy document partitioners</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>continue with encoding issues listed in the 3.1 plan 
          <ul>
            <li>integrate the 'Change Encoding...' action with the status editor 
              shown in case of encoding errors</li>
            <li>re-establish encoding support for external files</li>
            <li>react to resource encoding changes in FileDocumentProvider 
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>work with the Web Tools Platform project in order to improve overall 
          integration with Platform Text and the platform in general</li>
        <li>Java editor 
          <ul>
            <li>implement Search and Mark implementer occurrences</li>
            <li>enable semantic syntax highlight per default</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>move Javadoc formatting to JDT Core</li>
        <li>start work on improved string externalization 
          <ul>
            <li>navigate from selected key in Java editor to definition in properties 
              file editor</li>
            <li>show value when hovering over key in Java editor 
              <ul>
                <li>show value as is in the properties file</li>
                <li><img src="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/jdt-ui-home/images/glass.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="10" width="10"> 
                  show value as returned by the accessor class</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li>syntax coloring for Properties File Editor (comments, keys and 
              values) </li>
            <li>provide separate double-click strategy for key and value part 
              in Properties File editor </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>cross team issues 
          <ul>
            <li>contribute to the action contribution rework dynamic team</li>
            <li>contribute to the preferences rework dynamic team</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Items postponed to M4</h4>
      <ul>
        <li>PR triage </li>
        <ul>
          <li> PR that we definitively will not tackle for 3.1 will be resolved 
            as LATER</li>
          <li>effectively communicate the guide lines the team uses to the community</li>
        </ul>
        <li>start work on improved string externalization</li>
        <ul>
          <li>navigate from selected key and value in properties file to location 
            in Java editor and Plug-in Manifest editor 
          <li>spell checking in Properties File editor and Externalize Strings 
            wizard 
        </ul>
        </ul>
      <h4>Testing</h4>
      <ul>
        <li> The <a href="testing/testpass_M3.html">test plan</a> for the M3 test 
          pass.</li>
      </ul>
      <h3></h3>
      <hr>
      <h3>Milestone M2 </h3>
      <h4>Original Plan</h4>
      <h5>Commitments</h5>
      <ul>
        <li> finish 3.1 plan 
          <ul>
            <li>work on resolving cross team issues</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>PR triage 
          <ul>
            <li> PR that we definitively will not tackle for 3.1 will be resolved 
              as Later</li>
            <li>effectively communicate PR team guide lines to the community</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>finish 3.0.1</li>
        <li> bug fixing 
          <ul>
            <li>solve PRs that have been postponed between 3.0 RC1 - 3.0 GM</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> continue performance tests 
          <ul>
            <li>grow number of available tests</li>
            <li>investigate into interactive tests</li>
            <li>collaborate with SWT to solve the issues with simulated user interaction</li>
            <li>reflect about scope and applicability of test results (annotate 
              test cases accordingly)</li>
            <li>mature testing framework</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> improve performance 
          <ul>
            <li>e.g., new line at end of commented StyledText.java</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> increase correctness test coverage</li>
        <li> provide J2SE 5 editor support</li>
      </ul>
      <h5>Proposed items</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>support @link in hovers</li>
        <li>start with file buffer issues as outlined in the overall plan</li>
        <li>start solving encoding issues listed in the plan</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Finished items / To be continued into M3</h4>
      <h5></h5>
      <ul>
        <li>finish 3.1 plan</li>
        <li>finish 3.0.1</li>
        <li> bug fixing</li>
        <li> continue performance tests 
          <ul>
            <li>grow number of available tests</li>
            <li>investigate into interactive tests</li>
            <li>collaborate with SWT to solve the issues with simulated user interaction</li>
            <li>mature testing framework</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> increase correctness test coverage</li>
        <li> provide J2SE 5 editor support</li>
        <li>start with file buffer issues as outlined in the overall plan</li>
        <li>start solving encoding issues listed in the plan</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Added items</h4>
      <ul>
        <li>introduced &quot;Open Untiled Text File&quot;</li>
        <li>improve Smart Typing 
          <ul>
            <li>stabilize linked mode</li>
            <li>improve auto indent strategies for code and Javadoc</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Items postponed to M3</h4>
      <ul>
        <li>PR triage 
          <ul>
            <li> PR that we definitively will not tackle for 3.1 will be resolved 
              as Later</li>
            <li>effectively communicate PR team guide lines to the community</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> continue performance tests 
          <ul>
            <li>reflect about scope and applicability of test results (annotate 
              test cases accordingly)</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li> improve performance 
          <ul>
            <li>e.g., new line at end of commented StyledText.java</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>support @link in hovers</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Testing</h4>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="testing/testpass_M2.html">Test plan</a> for the M2 test pass.</li>
      </ul>
      <hr>
      <h3>Milestone M1</h3>
      <h4>Original plan</h4>
      <ul>
        <li>planning</li>
        <li>start working on performance tests 
          <ul>
            <li>how to write performance test</li>
            <li>what is achievable with performance tests</li>
            <li>establish a performance test infrastructure</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>3.0.1 fixing</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Finished items / To be continued into M2</h4>
      <h5></h5>
      <ul>
        <li>planning</li>
        <li>worked on performance tests 
          <ul>
            <li>several performance test available</li>
            <li>establish a performance test infrastructure</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>3.0.1 fixing mostly done</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Added items</h4>
      <ul>
        <li>support hyperlink navigation for URLs in comments</li>
        <li>introduce semantic highlighting for deprecated members</li>
      </ul>
      <h4>Testing</h4>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="testing/testpass_M1.html">Test plan</a> for the M1 test pass.</li>
      </ul>
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