[eclipse-dev] Minutes from 09/11 planning meeting

["Kevin Haaland" <Kevin_Haaland@xxxxxxx>]

Meeting notes 09/04

*** Items from last week ***

      First cross component team has been created.  Kai and Eduardo along
      with members of  the open source community are going to implement
      improved editor navigation.  The defect is described in
      http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5700
      Developers are using the platform-ui-dev mailing list.


      Added link to high priority challenges

            http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/challenges_2_1.html


      Updated 2.1 draft plan


http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_2_1.html


      Milestone plans for Sept 20 have been posted


http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_milestones_2_1.html



*** Status ***



JDT
      -     fixes for handling of circular dependencies among projects
      -     new refactoring: move class from inner to outer level
      -     AST rewriting support finished
      -     stop in main option added to debuger
      -     better support for reporting deprecations.
      -     support for creating task markers from code (no UI support yet)

Text
      -     fixing defects
      -     added some smart editing features (automatically inserting
matching delimiters, javadoc generation)
      -     continuing to work on splitting UI plugin into separate
plugins.


Install/update, Help, PDE

      -     need a solution for plugin/fragment version ids to support
ongoing 2.0.x and 2.1 development.
      -     bug fixing
      -     reviewing PDE usability
      -     2.1 planning

SWT
      -     PR triage
      -     progress on getting the MacOS X port into the official build


CORE

      -     need to find someone to help with Ant Core
      -     working on proposal for improved project layout

VCM

      -     PR triage
      -     2.1 planning

Platform UI
      -     new defect triage process is working very well
      -     over 300 defects were resolved last week
      -     priorities have also been assigned. There are 140 open P1/P2
defects
      -     approx 350 P3
      -     need to find someone to help with external tools UI

Releng
      -     working on automating the mac builds.
      -     working on getting test framework released to dev.eclipse.org
      -     refactoring tests are failing need to find out why

Other
      -     A powerpoint eclipse presentation posted to eclipse.org

Action Items

      -     2.1 builds are a problem. Need to quickly resolve bugs that are
causing the
            automated tests to fail. or preventing developers from using
the 2.1 integration builds

      -     Builds notes need to be improved and made more consistent.