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

[Nick Edgar <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Status for Platform UI:

- RCP: 
  - merged changes in HEAD between M3 and I20031015 into RCP stream
  - working with Core and PDE teams on backwards compatibility for R2.1 
and earlier plugin.xml files.
  - adding CoolBarManager to JFace, to allow it to be exposed in RCP API

- Scalability:
  - roles mechanism and contribution filtering moved over to new 
activities API

- Instrumentation
  - posting first cut of instrumentation framework

Nick




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 Discussion Topics 
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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