[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August 2, 2006

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status 
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Platform UI:

- Trim:
  - Working on the new 'Multi fast bar' handling
  - Design discussions regarding the commands/trim
infrastructure Commands
  - Worked on handler bug fixes
  - Investigate action set replacement using
command framework
- Still dialogs (resources & types)
- Reviving and generalizing undo code for marker create/delete/update
  - Undo of marker operations first step for
testing out resource-based undo strategy
  - Surfacing lots of duplicate code/cleanup
issues

JDT APT:

- Down to zero open bugs for APT.
- Waiting for JSR-269 API and ref implementation to finalize.
- Working with Sun to ensure JSR-269 interfaces will be available on 1.5
VMs and redistributable in Eclipse.

JDT Core:

- Vacations (5/7 committers)
- 3.3 
  - Preparing 3.3 M1
  - Preparing performance tests against 3.2
- 3.2.1 maintenance:
  - 52 bugs currently fixed
  - Bugs fixing starts to freeze on this stream
- Bug triage

Platform/JDT Text:

- continued with implementation of new extension point
for editor ruler columns
- 3.3 bug fixing
- vacation
- Swiss National Day

Debug:

- 3.3 and 3.2.1 bug fixing
- Vacation

Equinox:

- Investigating component architectures and decoupling
mechanisms (declarative services, Spring)
- Work on the launcher
- Preferences work
- Version verification tooling
- Investigation into general purpose backwards compatibility
framework
- Bug fixing
- Bug triage
- vacations

PDE:

- Added Filtered tree viewer to the Extensions Page
for fast searching of extensions
- Content assist improvements including showing javadoc
for manifest headers
- Performance improvements:
        - Significant
memory improvements when reconciling the plugin.xml model as you type
        - Less memory
footprint for extension point schemas
        - Deferred loading
of element/attribute descriptions

User Assistance:

- Work continues on remote help
- 3.2.1 bug fixing

Update:

- Bug triage
- 3.2.1 bug fixing

Workspace:

- Vacations, bug fixing, bug triage
- Support for incremental builders that respond to
external changes (bug 147702)