[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Oct 22, 2003

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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None.

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 Outreach 
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- Darin (W) and Jared (B) are presenting "Eclipse
- a universal tool plaform"
  presentation at ICE 2003 on Tuesday afternoon
  - see http://www.iceconference.com/

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 Status
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General

Debug:
- debug plug-ins no longer depend on xerces plug-in.
The XML files we
  persist are no longer formatted with white
space - however, since these
  files are not intended to be human readable,
this is not an issue
  (launch config files, for example).
- new "org.eclipse.core.variables" plug-in
will be released to HEAD
  *after* this weeks integration build, and will
be available for next week

Ant:
- Ant plug-ins no longer depend on xerces plug-in.
Getting code assist to work
  in the Ant Editor with JAXP APIs was more work
than we anticipated, due to
  missing column (source index) positions in
JAXP.

Releng:
- bug triage with team and bug fixing
- 2.1.2 RC2 build Wednesday Oct 22, 2pm EDT as per
2.1.2 endgame plan
  (http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/eclipse-project-home/plans/freeze_plan_2_1_2.html)

Platform/JDT Text:
- published M5 plan
- bug fixing
- continued working on Javadoc spell checking
- started working on improved annotation presentation
for multiple annotations
  at the same line (see plan item)
- started working on background highlight annotation
painter (see plan item)
- moved incremental find status presentation to separate
status line item
- introduced post selection listener updating problems
view and status line
  if the caret resides inside a problem

JDT/UI:
- bug fixing
- worked on exception support for change method signature
- added quick fixes for JavaDoc problems
- worked on pushing AST rewrite down to JDT/Core

Search:
- worked on improved replace dialog

Core:
- Xerces:
  - released Core code to remove depedancy on
Xerces
  - other teams are making good progress at conversion
- Concurrency:
  - dynamic team has been created to address
remaining outstanding issues
    with Responsive UI
- Equinox:
  - continued work on performance
  - progress made on running WSAD
  - more people are now using the Equinox OSGi
runtime
  - new support for fragments is being implemented
- Other:
  - HP-UX version of Core library is now included
in a fragment and
    contributed by Sumit Sarkar from HP.

- RCP:
  - talked with Jeem, Wassim, Nick and Jeff about
the UI plug-in
    restructuring and backward compatibility
  - looking at different approaches for 2.1 plug-ins
running in a 3.0
    environment
  - hashing out issues of how PDE is to behave
in this scenerio

Help:
- removed dependency on Xerces
- one more NL bug fix for 2.1.2 RC2
- released fixes for a number of accessibility bugs
in 3.0
- roles in Help currently disabled while the platform
UI team redesigns
  the implementation (otherwise, help would be
broken and no help books
  would appear)

PDE:
- OSGi work progresses well - most 'New Bundle' code
templates (including
  'Hello, World') now working. We can create
a new bundle (with or without
  content), migrate a plug-in into a bundle,
update bundle classpath,
  support bundle fragments etc.
- added support for presenting site.xml in  a
browser using XSLT (lists
  the site content)

Update:
- exploring the Update redesign options
- removed dependency on Xerces

SWT:
- exploring new look and feel in CTabFolder
- 2.1.2 end game - fix for Solaris
- Bidi with Lena from IBM MiddleEast
- M4 testing