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Milestone Plan (3.3 M6 :Date March 23 , 2007)
Key Dates
  • R3.3 Milestone 6: March 23, 2007
  • Last day of development: March 16, 2007
  • Build/test/fix pass: March 19,, 2007
General Items
  • General
    • inbox tracking (5 days)
    • build submissions (3 days)
    • news group monitoring (4 days)
    • bug cleanup/reviewing (4 days)
Plan details
 

Workbench Usability (EM)

  • Trim improvements
  • Min/max improvements
 

Presentation refresh (TC and KMc)

  • Tab drawing improvements
  • Editor area treatment
 

JFace Enhancements (TC, BB)

  • Tree and table API review
 

Keybindings and Commands (PW, KH, EM,AS)

  • Continuing work on API
  • Action set support for new API
  • Handling of backwards compatibility cases
  • Menu and contribution support
  • Keys preference page
  • Support of other Eclipse components (Text)
 

API Review (EM,BB,TC,KH,PW, SB,KM,KMc)

  • review of all 3.3 API
 

Use Workbench Features (TC)

  • ensure Foundation compliance in workbench
 

Common Search Dialog (KM,TC)

  • convert open type dialog to new dialog
 

Decoration Support (SF)

  • bug fixing
  • investigate arbitrary placement of ControlDecoration
 

Servicability (SB,TC, KMc)

  • Supply improved dialog
  • test cases

 

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Milestone Plan (3.3 M5 :Date February 9, 2007)
Key Dates
  • R3.2 Milestone 5: February 9, 2007
  • Last day of development: February 2, 2007
  • Build/test/fix pass: February 5, 2007
General Items
  • General
    • inbox tracking (5 days)
    • build submissions (3 days)
    • news group monitoring (4 days)
    • bug cleanup/reviewing (4 days)
Plan details
 

Workbench Usability (EM and McGUI)

  • Trim improvements
  • Min/max improvements
  • General Usability Investigation
 

Data Bindings (BB)

  • Continued work on 3.2 API
 

JFace Enhancements (TC, BB)

  • Tree and table API review
  • Virtual Tree enhancements
 

Search Based Navigation (BB)

  • Complete search based navigation
 

Keybindings and Commands (PW and EM)

  • Continuing work on API
  • Action set support for new API
  • Handling of backwards compatibility cases
  • Menu and contribution support
  • Keys preference page
 

Performance (EM,BB,TC,KH,TC,SB,KM,KMc)

  • general performance work
 

Saving Settings (TC)

  • Investigate issues with preference support
 

Tab Truncation (TC)

  • Improve tab truncation algorithm
 

Use Workbench Features (TC, BB, McGUI)

  • investigate using the UI features we support in more places
  • integrate common navigator into IDE
  • ensure Foundation compliance
 

Launching (KH)

  • Making the SDK launcher extensible and porting to a java based solution
 

Editor Improvements (McGUI, BB)

  • Investigate background editor saving
  • General improvements to editor support
 

Resources (KM)

  • EFS improvements
  • general marker support improvements
 

Common Search Dialog (KM)

  • convert open type dialog to new dialog
 

Servicability (SB/BK/KM)

  • apply error handling changes throughout the UI
  • Supply improved dialog
 

ICU4J (KMc)

  • integrating new release
 

Undo/Redo (KH)

  • general maintenance
 

Windows Vista (TC/EM)

  • investigate issues with 3.2.2 and 3.3
  • investigate use of features

 

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Milestone Plan (3.3 M4 :Date December 15, 2006)
Key Dates
  • R3.2 Milestone 4: December 15, 2006
  • Last day of development: December 8, 2006
  • Build/test/fix pass: December 11, 2006
General Items
  • General
    • inbox tracking (5 days)
    • build submissions (3 days)
    • news group monitoring (4 days)
    • bug cleanup/reviewing (4 days)
Plan details
 

Workbench Usability (EM,BB and McGUI)

  • Trim improvements
  • General Usability Investigation
 

Data Bindings (BB)

  • Continued work on 3.2 API
 

Keybindings and Commands (PW and EM)

  • Continuing work on API
  • Action set support for new API
  • Handling of backwards compatibility cases
  • Menu support
 

[>3.3] Multi Instance Views(PW)

  • investigate further use of multi instance views
 

Performance (EM,BB,TC,KH,TC,PW,SB,KM,,DN)

  • general performance pass
  • virtual progress view (TC)
 

Saving Settings (TC)

  • Project properties per working set
  • Configuration level settings
 

Launching (KH)

  • Making the SDK launcher extensible and porting to a java based solution
 

XSLT Support (KH)

  • Support for modification of plug-in markup
 

Editor Improvements (BB,McGUI)

  • Investigate background editor saving
  • General improvements to editor support
 

Text features (KH)

  • Platform changes required for improved text support
 

Search Based Navigation (BB,AF)

  • Investigate search based navigation
 

Servicability (SB/KM)

  • apply error handling changes throughout the UI
 

Field Assist (McGUI, /SF)

  • improving support
  • integration into workbench
 

UI Features (TC, McGUI)

  • include common navigator in UI (TC)
 

ICU4J (KMc)

  • integrating new release
 

Common Search Dialog (KM)

  • convert open type dialog to new dialog
 

Instrumentation (KM)

  • refresh of 3.0 instrumentation support for 3.3
 

Windows Vista (TC/EM)

  • investigate issues with 3.2.2 and 3.3
  • investigate use of features

 

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Milestone Plan (3.3 M3 :Date November 3, 2006)
Key Dates
  • R3.2 Milestone 3: November 3, 2006
  • Last day of development: October 28, 2006
  • Build/test/fix pass: October 31, 2006
General Items
  • General
    • inbox tracking (5 days)
    • build submissions (3 days)
    • news group monitoring (4 days)
    • bug cleanup/reviewing (4 days)
Plan details
 

Workbench Usability (EM and McGUI)

  • Workbench Layout improvements
  • Min/Maximum
  • General Usability Investigation
 

Data Bindings (BB)

  • Continued work on 3.2 API
 

UI Guidelines (BB,TC and McGUI)

  • Refresh of UI Guidelines
 

Keybindings and Commands (PW,EM and DN)

  • Finishing API
  • Handling of backwards compatibility cases
  • menu item placement
  • dynamic menu support
 

JFace Enhancements (TC, BB, McGUI)

  • improving extensibility of Table and Tree viewers
  • application of new support throughout the UI
  • Virtual Tree enhancements
 

Search based navigation (BB/AF)

  • move provisional support into the workbench
  • make it extensible
 

UI Features (TC, McGUI)

  • investigate using the UI features we support in more places
  • include common navigator in UI (TC)
  • field assist (see below)
 

Extended File System (TC)

  • IFileStoreEditorInput support
 

Launching (KH)

  • Making the SDK launcher extensible and porting to a java based solution
 

XSLT Support (KH)

  • Support for modification of plug-in markup
 

Instrumentation (KM)

  • refresh of 3.0 instrumentation support for 3.3
 

Servicability (SB)

  • consolidate error handling story
  • solve the branding issue
 

Open Resources Dialog (KM)

  • convert open resource dialog to new dialog
  • convert open type dialog to new dialog
 

Field Assist (SF)

  • continue field assist support
 

Undo/Redo (SF)

  • continue undo support for navigator operations (resource add/delete/modify)
  • preliminary API for undoable workspace operations available for experimentation by other teams
 

Windows Vista (TC/EM)

  • investigate issues with 3.2.2 and 3.3
  • investigate use of features
 

Saving Settings (TC)

  • Investigate issues with preference support

 

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Milestone Plan (3.3 M2 :Date September 22, 2006)
Key Dates
  • R3.2 Milestone 2: September 22, 2006
  • Last day of development: September 15, 2006
  • Build/test/fix pass: September 19, 2006
General Items
  • General
    • inbox tracking (5 days)
    • build submissions (3 days)
    • news group monitoring (4 days)
    • bug cleanup/reviewing (4 days)
Plan details
 

Workbench Usability (EM and McGUI)

  • Trim improvements
  • General Usability Investigation
 

Data Bindings (BB)

  • Continued work on 3.2 API
 

UI Guidelines (BB and McGUI)

  • Refresh of UI Guidelines
 

Keybindings and Commands (PW and DN)

  • Finishing API
  • Handling of backwards compatibility cases
 

JFace Enhancements (TC and BB)

  • improving extensibility of Table and Tree viewers
  • Item aware label providers
  • Owner draw
  • Cell improvements
 

Launching (KH)

  • Making the SDK launcher extensible and porting to a java based solution
 

Native Controls (TC)

  • Investigate a Calendar and Time widget
 

Editor Improvements (PW)

  • Investigate background editor saving
 

Open Resources Dialog (SB/KM)

  • create common dialog class for Open Type and Open Resource
  • convert both to new dialog
 

Servicability (SB/KM)

  • consolidate error handling story
  • migrate the SDK to use the new error handling
 

Undo/Redo (SF)

  • complete undo support for marker ops in platform UI (tasks, bookmarks, problems)
  • continue undo support for navigator operations (resource add/delete/modify)
  • preliminary API for undoable workspace operations available for experimentation by other teams
 

ICU4J (KMc)

  • bug fixing
  • investigate using them more widely
 

Windows Vista (TC/KMc)

  • investigate issues with 3.2.1 and 3.3
  • investigate use of features
 

Accessibility (KMc)

  • 3.2.1 bug fixing
  • track JFace changes
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