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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 Layou improvements
  • Min/Maximum
  • 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,EM and DN)

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

JFace Enhancements (TC, McGUI)

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

Search based navigation (BB/AF)

  • move provisional support into the workbench
  • make it extensible
 

UI Features (TC, KMc, McGUI)

  • investigate using the UI features we support in more places
 

Extended File System (TC, KMc)

  • extend the import/export dialogs to support extended file system
 

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 (SB/KM)

  • refresh of 3.0 instrumentation support for 3.3
 

Servicability (SB/KM)

  • consolidate error handling story
  • solve the branding issue
 

Open Resources Dialog (SB/KM)

  • convert both 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/KMc/EM)

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

Accessibility (KMc)

  • 3.2.1 bug fixing
  • track JFace changes

 

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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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