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CVS3.1 Plan platform cvs support

Themes for CVS 3.1

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The overall themes for this release are detailed below:

• Built to last
• Message catalog clean-up
  The CVS message catalogs are a big mess. There are many un-used keys and key names are too long. They need to be cleaned up.
  
• [>3.1]CVS Client APIs
  Many plug-in developers are already using internal CVS operations, most of the classes we can make public and then have snippets. We could also provide snippets for using the CVS plug-in.
  
• Memory usage of CVS meta information
  The CVS plug-in caches information about resources shared with CVS in memory. The cache is to support responsive decorators and operations. Also, most action enablement is based on this cached information.
  
• Performance tests
  for CVS for regressions and comparison with command line client.
  
• Simple to use
• Commit sets
•  support for outgoing changes (Bug 23765 The Team:Commit... dialog is modal). This is related to support for change sets, but can be done independently if a generic API is not created for 3.1.
• Usability with CVS error messages (provide detailed english explanations and workarounds instead of log messages)
  • also investigate showing the output of the CVS log in the error dialogs.
• Ignoring resources made easier.
  • Many people simply want to say, I don't want this to show up anymore.
• File types - prompting when unknown on add, other usability improvements.
• [>3.1] Improve support for actions that could work with multiselected resources
  • sharing https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9478
  • patching creating across projects
• author and comment directly in compare editor (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11426)
• [>3.1]drag-and-drop /copy and paste (synchronize view...?)
  • https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=50101 (paste cvs location as shown on most websites)
  • copy/drag+drop resource names from sync view
• [>3.1] Label decorations for easier use with mixed tags, branches, versions (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=66958)
• SSH2
• Key export wizard can be improved.
• We could instead add a key creation wizard that would allow
• Enable pserver over ssh connection method.
• [>3.1] Watch/Edit
• Mostly so that we get good coverage of validateEdit, we should self-host using this feature
• To make it more usable, the server query could be run in a separate thread so that typing is not affected by the validate call. This may however be a problem for refactorings?
• Annotate
• Annotate command forces the user into the CVS perspective. This is not nice.
• [>3.1] Patch support improvements
  
• Large-scale development
• filtering tag names from UI
      https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=237
• [>3.1] Browsing bugs from the history view and synchronize view
  
• Broadening the community
• FAQ update
• CVS usage snippets
• community CVS plug-in page
• hacking with us - project sets for CVS and Team and some simple architecture overviews

3.1 Development Effort - Milestone 2 (Friday Sept 24th, 2004)

• Performance and Memory [Mike]
  • Create a set of performance tests for benchmark framework
  • Investigate ways to reduce memory usage for CVS metadata caching
• Commit Set [Mike]
  • allow the user to create, manage outgoing commit sets
  • drag n' drop files  between outgoing sets
  • active set get new changes
  • merge sets by dragging one set into another (this could also merge the set names)
• Update prompter [Jean-Michel]
  • remove the automatic prompter
  • assign wizard to keybinding instead
    
• Annotate [Silvio]
•  add preference so that view can appear in a user defined perspective
• fetch annotations in the background
• Decorators [Jean-Michel]
• add support for color and fonts in CVS decorators
• add support for configuring commit set decoration
• improve preview support

3.1 Development Effort - Milestone 3 (Friday Nov. 5, 2004)

• Maintaining the execute flag
  • Core is adding API to set the execute bit we will ensure that bit is set on checkout/add
    
• Port CVS console to new console APIs
• Usability with CVS error messages (provide detailed english explanations and workarounds instead of log messages)
• also investigate showing the output of the CVS log in the error dialogs.
• Focus on usability and stabilizing bug fixing
  

3.1 Development Effort - Milestone 4 (Friday Dev. 17, 2004)

• Filtering tags support
  • When a project has many tags it is hard to use the tag selerction dialog (bug 237)
  • Investigate how to reduce tags from repository browser
• [>3.1] Drag 'n Drop between change sets
  • It's currently only possible via the context menu
• Improve file types
• Investigate how file types relate to content type registry, can we leverage any of that work?
• prompting when unknown instead of simply selecting a default
  
• [>3.1] Improve support for actions that could work with multiselected resources
  • sharing https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9478
  • patching creating across projects

3.1 Development Effort - Milestone 5 (Friday Feb. 18, 2005)

• CVS operations work on ResourceMapping
  • For example, commiting a Java project will noew only commit the files in the package and not those in sub-packages

3.1 Development Effort - Milestone 6 (Friday Apr. 1, 2005)

• ResourceMapping related work
  • provide CVS implementation for any M6 work invovling ResourceMappings
• Critical bug fixes
  • If any come up