[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Sept 20, 2006

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status 
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Platform UI:
- working sets:
  - usability improvements 
- launcher:
  - specing out launcher branding changes 
- viewers:
  - investigating JFace owner draw support
  - virtual tree viewer maintenance
- search dialogs:
  - general bug fixing
  - adding camel case to the resource dialog
(moving CC to the platform)
    in progress
  - adding workspace filters to the resource
dialog in progress 
- error handling & error dialog story:
  - updated wiki doc
  - working on error handler ext. schema in progress
- keybindings:
  - started working on menu proposals for:
    - Bug 154130 [KeyBindings] Finish re-work
of commands and key bindings
- releng tools:
  - final polish work
- ICU4J 3.6/Eclipse planning with ICU team:
  - refined and released code to adopt ICU Collator
in UI (bug 154884)
    - logged bugs to other components to
do the same.
- wizards:
  - wizard bug fixes
- fixing loose ends on marker undo support:
  - text editor action issues, validation problems
- design discussions on field assist requirements:
  - required fields, content assist, errors/warnings
- resource move/copy/delete undo postponed to M3 for
  further testing and code review
- 3.2.1:
  - verification and back porting

Rel. Eng.:
- 3.2.1 endgame
- Wassim's predictions of 1000s of 3.2.1 rebuilds
has come true.  
  Please make it stop :-)
- 3.3 M2 builds
- bug fixing

JDT UI:
- released lightweight rename refactoring UI, enable
on Preferences > Java
- working on 'Clean Up' profiles preference page and
dialog
- invoking 'Clean Up' from an editor now doesn't need
a dialog anymore
- discussions with Platform/UI and design teams on
field decoration &
  validation
- bug fixing 

Workspace:
- bug fixing leading up to 3.3 M2
- switched local history commands to use History view
- apply Patch wizard now previews against local workspace
- compare editors on local files now use file buffers
- published Team 3.3 M3 plan on web

Runtime:
- launcher work
- investigation of spring-osgi integration
- investigation into splash screen
- API tooling
- start work on demos
- final 3.2.1 bug fixes
- 3.3 planning
- bug triage
- bug fixing

JDT Core:
- validation of 3.2.1
- validation of 3.2M2
- code assist: 
  - annotation types are proposed after "@"
prefix
- added new flag on IJavaSearchConstants  to
denote searching 
  for both interface or annotation type (see
bug 156177)
- work in progress:
  - improve handling of missing types referenced
from class
    files (indirectly). Plan is to avoid
aborting the process
    of compilation.
  - provide ways to filter out uninteresting
polymorphic
    search matches for method invocations.
  - implementing compiler front end compliant
to JSR-199
    on compiler tool API.
- bug fixing

Platform/JDT Text:
- working towards 3.3 M2 (N&N, test pass, ...)
- released first cut of spelling reconciler strategy
for M2
- adopted ICU Collator along with new APIs in Platform
UI
- inbox tracking

Debug:
- continued experimental migration of debug views
to JFace virtual viewers
  - implemented support for standard viewer filters
in lazy tree viewer
- investigating launch support for combination of
lanuch modes/options
  (eg. debug & profile) 
- bug fixing

PDE:
- the last batch of PDE launcher APIs released
- another OSGi project wizard template added (we have
three OSGi
  templates now)
- cheat sheet editor more-less done in M2
- command composer almost done
  - will be tweaked and exposed in other scenarios
post M2
- bug fixing

User Assistance:
- preliminary research on the better ways to NL UA
content
- studying the new accessibility standard and how
it will affect UA
- remote help mostly functional in M2 - entering maintenance
mode. 
  - we will work with the Releng to make an experimental
build with
    remote help available for early adopters.
  - early testing shows seamless merging of local
and remote content
    - virtually impossible to tell which
is which
    - searching, keyword index all work
transparently
- bug fixing