[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Sep 07, 2004

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[note: I am back from vacation, so you should send future status messages 
to me. (Thanks for the help, Kevin.)]

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 Discussion Topics
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 Outreach 
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 Status
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Debug:
- design/implementation of action contribution for generic console
  via console participants
- refactored debug hot code replace to work with Java model AST API
- investigation of J2SE5 pluggable JDI connetors and impact on our JDI
  implementation to support them
- 3.0.1 and 3.1 bug fixes
- selection sensitive launching from top level "run/debug" cascade menus 
- initial implementation & review of breakpoint groups (still under
  development, not in HEAD)
- initial support for debugger evaluations using 1.5 source code

Ant:
- leak testing

PDE:
- 3.0.1:
  - four defects going into RC2
- 3.1:
  - branding-related controls added to the 'New project' wizard

Intro:
- 3.0.1:
  - added an attribute to define encoding of imported HTML snippets
    in the intro content XML file (also changed the default encoding
    to be UTF8 in RC2)

Update:
- on vacation

JDT/UI:
- bug fixing
- J2SE 5.0 theme:
  - continued work on Augment Raw Collection Clients
  - started integrating new 5.0 code formatter options
  - Pull Up/Push Down for classes with type variables
  - checked move static members with type variables
  - investigated in rename type variable refactoring
- Build to Last theme:
  - new performance tests for rename type, rename method, and
    extract interface. Implemented acceptance tests using
    SWT as a code base and "synthetic" tests to ensure that
    performance is linear to the number of reference to be
    updated.
- integrated contributed quick assist to split, invert, ... 
  boolean expressions
- removed references to OldASTRewrite and TextBuffer
- finally removed java_swt
- adapted Mac application bundle exporter

Platform/Search:
- 3.0.1 fixing

Performance Plugin:
- bug fixing
- implemented the "assertPerformance" calls based on Cloudscape queries.
- added support for "startup workbench" performance test
- investigated in how to setup a Cloudscape server

Platform/JDT Text:
- bug fixing (3.0.1 and 3.1)
- contributed to Performance Test dynamic team
- continued encoding work
- continued work on consolidated text manipulation infrastructure at
  the level of file buffers
- increased number of test cases

Platform Core:
- work on last-minute critical 3.0.1 bugs
- work on test suites (trying to integrate session tests)
- investigation of reported performance problems with large workspaces
- 3.1 planning
- bug fixing