[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August 23, 2006

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[Note: Mcq returns next week - please send status
to Mcq from now on]

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 Status 
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Platform/JDT Text:
- Continued with live annotate enhancements:
   - added more coloring modes to the revision
ruler
- Fixed remaining bugs for 3.2.1
- 3.3 bug fixing
- Inbox tracking

Platform UI:

- JFace Enhancements
   - Improved tooltip support
   - Opened up viewers to access items on
update
- Multi Fast View Bar
   - Implemented Trim 'Group' FVB
   - Added code to express the current Min/Max
handling using groups
- Working on plan for 3.3 finish command framework
problem 
- Received ICU4J 3.4.5 for Eclipse 3.2.1 (bug 150296)

- Investigated and resolved accessibility issues with
multi-column Tree and CVS conflict markup (it's an option now, rather than
the default)
- NLS: Investigating Japanese bug 153867

Platform Core:

- Backwards compatibility framework investigation
- Investigation on service registry performance improvements
- Pack200 work with releng
- Work on the launcher
- Integration of feature version verifier tooling
with releng build tests
- Bug triage
- Bug fixing
- 3.2.1 bug fixing
- Vacations

JDT APT:

- We have a fix for an APT bug,
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=133744, which we are
lobbying to get into 3.2.1.
- Working with Sun to get a redistributable version of the JSR-269 and
JSR-199 interfaces that can be included in Eclipse (so we can build and
run under Java 5 environments).
- Waiting for JSR-269 API and ref implementation to finalize


Releng:

- Dealing with multiple lab hardware, network, and
a/c issues.
- Test builds for of pack200 issue 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=154069
- Helping Haytham with test builds for final touches
on 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=58101
- Working with core team on integrating feature version
checker into the build
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=149983
- Successful fishing trip
- Bug triage

PDE:
- Working on the cheat sheet editor prototype
- More OSGi service templates added
- Work continues on launching arbitrary OSGi framework
implementations
- Work continues on streamlining the new plug-in project
creation code
- Finally fixing the copy/paste/DND function in the
plug-in manifest editor
- Bug fixes

Update:
- Bug fixes for 3.2.1

User Assistance:
- Work continues on the remote help capability
- Investigation of the cheat sheet usability and adoption
problems