[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Jun 21, 2006

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status 
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Platform UI:
- bugs:
  - continuing investigation of Bug 145310 [KeyBindings] keys occasionally
    stop working after a popup
  - TVT bug investigation
- 3.3 planning:
  - command framework 
  - Made a first cut attempt to provide the breaking up of the current
    CoolBar into separate trim components
- 3.2.1 and 3.3 bug fixes:
  - Problems View
  - Progress View
  - CompositeImageDescriptors
- documentation:
  - wrote entry in wiki about the Bidi text rendering issue
    - http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/New_Bidi_APIs
  - updated the new "Platform UI Design Discussion WIKI with various
    investigation results and general comments
- Field Assist improvements:
  - fixing bugs to improve type-ahead/auto complete scenario
  - investigating alternate decoration rendering for easier adoption
    by UI Forms
  - misc bugs
- bug triage for 3.3

Debug:
- 3.3 and 3.2.1 bug fixing
- started work to improve feedback for build during launch

JDT APT:
 - 3.3 planning

Platform/JDT Text:
- information control and content assist popup placement and sizing:
  - added support for multi-monitor setup
  - fixed several bugs
- 3.3 planning
- 3.3 bug fixing
- continued work on typed templates
- bugzilla inbox tracking

JDT UI:
- 3.3 planning
- 3.3 bug fixing
- cleaning up 'clean up refactoring' code & added tests
- moving jdt/ui webpage to Phoenix
- bugzilla inbox tracking
- evaluation of various areas we want to look at in 3.3

JDT Core:
- 3.2.1 fixes in preparation
- 3.3 planning
- 3.3 development
- compiler no longer leaves dead instructions after branch 
  chaining optimization
- rewriting setClasspath operation 
- work in progress for handling monster string concatenation 
  expression (avoid stack overflow)
- assessing scalability on monster workspace
- tuning 1.6 stackmap classfile attributes
- resolved issues with tests being VM specific
- bug triage

Workspace:
- Finished conversion to new web space for Resources, Team and CVS
  (now we're cool)
- Bug triage
- 3.3 Planning
- 3.3 Bug fixing and created patches for 3.2.1

Rel. Eng.:
- eclipsebuildserv rebuilt due to hard drive failure
- troubleshooting lab network problems
- assisting with callisto end game plan with WTP and webmaster
- released latest 3.2 M-build jars to Callisto RC5
- writing a testing proposal to reduce the amount of time to run
  performance tests and allow other teams to more easily contribute
  test results
- had a meeting with Bjorn and Ward to provide overview of platform
  build process 
- Haytham has written code that generates a better build page with
  Phoenix style sheets, better layout etc.  Will ask for feedback from
  commmunity before releasing to build.

User Assistance:
- investigating using OSGI http service for help (instead of Tomcat)
- inbox triage

PDE:
- work continues on PDE editor source page goodies 
  - F3/open declaration support
  - type and resource hyperlinks
  - context assist
- improved XML parsing performance
- improving performance of the PDE editors in general
- 3.3 planning

Install/Update:
- inbox triage
- researching Apache file I/O

SWT:
- fixing bugs in 3.3 stream
- did not submit to this week's integration build