[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Mar 1, 2006

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topic
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Platform/JDT Text:
- do we want/need a 'polish' dynamic team like we
had one for 3.1?

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 Status
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Platform/JDT Text:
- fixed save operation's handling of characters that
cannot be mapped
  using the given encoding
- continued with quick assist support
- collected polish items
- eclipseCon tutorial preparation (in progress)
- bug fixing
- bugzilla inbox tracking

JDT UI:
- preview in Clean Up wizard
- new Clean Ups:
  - qualify static and non-static method accesses
  - remove 'this' qualifier for non-static field
and method accesses
  - make 'final' where possible (private fields,
parameters, local
    variables)
- new Quick Assist:
  - change modifiers of variable to final
- experimenting on decorators on CU /classfile if
class or interface is
  in file
- released wizard to automatically fix deprecations
- added ability to perform supertype analysis to Pull
Up refactoring
- enabled AST recovery for refactorings affecting
only 1 file:
  - allows refactorings in files with syntax
errors
  - please watch out for problems and file bugs
- Java search: added filter for potential matches
- investigated memory leaks
- UI polishing
- bug fixing
- EclipseCon preparation
- released equals & hashCode patch for core._expression_

Debug:
- bug fixing
- M6 Planning:
  - posted draft plans for debug platform and
jdt debug
- investigating performance test failures:
  - discovered the toString() computation is
not slower, but the test i
    now measuring more updates
- added "fitlered tree" support in launch
dialog
- attended DSDP meeting:
  - gave progress report on enhanced debug platform,
received feedback
    from early adopters

Workspace:
 - grouping by date in history view
 - working with adopters of EFS file systems
 - EclipseCon, Eclipse in Motion prep

JDT Core:
- M6 planning
- improving null reference analysis (recognize more
patterns)
- for 1.5 targets (or when toggling preference for
Inlining 
  Finally Blocks), the compiler is inlining finally
blocks at 
  every exit point inside a try statement. With
fix for bug 
  128705, the inlining got smarter, and identical
exit point 
  are now sharing the same inlined finally block
(to be truly 
  identical, exit points must denote the same
break/continue 
  label, or be return from void method, or return
the same 
  constant or null value.
- fix for bug 127628 required the index version to
be incremented. 
  Indexes will be automatically regenerated upon
subsequent 
  search queries (accounting for indexing notification
in 
  search progress dialogs).
- bug fixing

Platform UI:
- general:
  - properties view enhancements
  - high contrast features
  - ICU4J: scheduled integration of ICU v3.4.3,
replacement plugin
  - update field assist support and example to
support latest proposed
    visuals
  - API reviews
  - look into editor lifecycle support for the
common navigator
  - preparation for EclipseCon
  - UI polish
- commands:
  - performance work on handlers (Bug 126901)
- common navigator:
  - discussed M6 plan and API changes with Michael
Elder
- JFace:
  - proposal to push field assist policy into
JFace API
- logical model support:
  - continued working on save lifecycle support
- performance: 
  - examining M5 results, identifying false positive
results 
    (e.g. some don't have 3.1 baseline results)

PDE:
- added support for the new <?eclipse version="3.2?>:
  - this instruction is needed only for developers
to take advantage of
    the extension namespace support
  - new plug-in projects are generated with this
instruction
- investigating performance of opening manifest editors
and building the
  state
- added support to reload the target platform directly
from the target
  editor
- splash screen section of the product editor now
allows the customization
  of an embedded startup progress bar/message
- Feature Import wizard revamped
- SDWest preparation
- bug fixing

User Assistance:
- work continues on dynamic content search issues
(refiltering the
  search results)
- welcome:
  - Universal Welcome in today's build (using
classic Eclipse theme)
  - work still ongoing
- cheat sheets:
  - flushing out composite cheat sheet flow of
control
  - working on remaining composite cheat sheet
work items
- linkability:
  - working on the link authoring utility (will
be published on the
    UA home page)
  - started adding live help links in various
places of the SDK
    documentation:
    - the links that open dialogs (most
of them) critically depend on the
      ability to see the help window
while in the modal dialog (bug 95478)
    - we have re-enabled the Help code that
uses separate Display to show
      the Help window

Update:
- investigating the possibility of adding update site
digest support to
  minimize downloading large number of feature
JARs for site browsing and
  searching (to support Callisto downloads and
searches)
- file handle or memory leak suspected in Update that
prevents full
  Callisto download -- investigating
- bug triage