[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Sep 14, 2004

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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JDT Core:
- would like a 3.0.2 milestone to start planning/backport some important
  fixes

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 Outreach 
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 Status
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Debug:
- Bug triage & fixing
- 3.0.1 test pass
- Discovered performance problems in the console's new regular expression
  matching feature. Working on improvements.
- Support for the new 1.5 for loop in debugger evaluations
- Initial support for breakpoint groups, continuing to work on
  enhancements for M2

Ant:
- Leak testing
- Bug fixing
- 3.0.1 test pass

Platform UI:
- 3.1 planning and discussions with other teams etc...
- work on support for new Core preference support
- 3.0.1 testing and fixing
- JFace button height changes
- new keyboard shortcuts assistance popup (Ctrl+Shift+L)
- new key preference tab on preference page shows all shortcuts
- performance tests
- begin work on cleanup of registries for more dynamic ui support

Rel. Eng.:
- eclipse 3.0.1 end-game
- switch to Sun 1.4.2_05 java runtime for running performance tests
  post I20040914.
- regenerating baseline and historical performance data with most recent
  set of performance tests and new jre level.
- setting up Cloudscape database for performance data collection in
  eclipse builds
- adding improved performance graphing tool to build (thanks Andre!)
- test builds of eclipse SDK for Linux GTK IA64 configuration
  (3.0.1 stream).
- added new test framework download to builds. 
  - contains org.eclipse.test and performance framework plug-ins only.
- added EMF 2.0 to eclipse 3.0 update site
- vacation

Intro:
- looks good for 3.0.1 
  - no more fixes
- start working on the Intro article

Help:
- regression in SWT that affected Help in 3.0.1 (preventing key events
  from accessing ActiveX components)
- some performance tests released into the build
- bug fixes for 3.1

PDE:
- good for 3.0.1 RC2
- more progress in new RCP project wizard (template support added to it)
  - a new template that opens a blank RCP window was added (sort of an
    RCP 'Hello, World')
- launcher fixed to pick up splash screens of RCP applications
- lots of bug fixes

Update:
- bug fixes

JDT Core:
- 3.0.1 : no further change planned
- 3.1 :
  - planning in progress (together with JDT/UI&Text) (posted
    preliminary plan)
  - released a fix for performance regression in codeassist (due to
    java model memory footprint reduction) -->
  - tuned semantics for parameterized member types
  - defined some performance tests, but not yet contributed for
    integration
  - bug fixing

Platform Core:
- 3.0.1 testing and verification
- work with UI team on new preference API integration
- large scale application performance
- 3.1 planning and discussion for large-scale application use-cases
- bug fixing

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

JDT/UI:
- 3.0.1 bug fixing and test pass
- JDT/Core - JDT/UI meeting
- J2SE 5.0 theme
  - implemented rename type parameter refactoring
  - added user interface for new formatter settings dealing
    with new language features
  - investigate in making Source Actions J2SE 5.0 aware
  - continued work on Augment Raw Collection clients. Got a first
    end to end version running that transforms code like:
      List l= new ArrayList();
      l.add("Eclipse")
    into
      List<String> l= new ArrayList<String>();
      l.add("Eclipse")
- Generic Navigator: looked at WTPOperations and satellites to 
  understand the difference to refactoring and refactoring 
  participants

Platform/Search:
- 3.0.1 bug fixing and test pass

Performance Plug-in:
- bug fixing
- rewrote graphing tools for SWT and Cloudscape
- finalized database structure
- finalized performance plugin API

Team/CVS:
- released initial cut at outgoing commit sets and nested layouts in
  the synchronize view
- released refactored FTP/WebDAV to the build
- working on including font and color as part of CVS decorators
- investigating bugzilla integration with Eclipse
- preparing for Hurrican Ivan