[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Sept 27, 2006

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Outreach
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- Jeff presenting at at JAOO (http://jaoo.org) and
Eclipse Summit Europe
  (http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2006/)
in the next two weeks

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 Status 
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Platform UI:
- 3.3 M2 work
- released updated tree and table viewer APIs
- improvement to ResourceManager and supporting APIs
- investigating 3.2.1 and 3.3 test failures on linux
using 5.0 vm
- bug investigation: FilteredTree, ViewerComparator,
Wizards 
- resource dialog:
  - fixes
  - adding camel case to the resource dialog
(moving CC to the platform)
  - adding workspace filters to the resource
dialog in progress
- error handling & error dialog story:
  - see http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Platform_UI_Error_Handling
  - working on error handler ext. schema in progress
  - basic implementation of new EH
- rel. eng. tools improvements
- search based navigation 
- workspace launcher
- commands:
  - bug 154130 [KeyBindings] Finish re-work of
commands and key bindings
  - updated wiki:
    - http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/FAQ_Actions%2C_commands%2C_operations%2C_jobs:_What_does_it_all_mean%3F
- investigating moving perspective layouts to a new
workspace
- drag and drop:
  - text
  - editors


Platform/JDT Text:
- shipped 3.3 M2
- released live annotate aka. revisions API:
  - see the org.eclipse.jface.text.revisions
package and
    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=147316
- improved typing stability i.e. editor viewport is
now stable when
  operations modify the document out-of-context
(e.g. organize imports)
- pushed down Smart Home/End to Platform Text with
help from Amy Wu who
  provided a patch
- got rid of duplicated classes related to html rendering
- M3 bug fixing
- inbox tracking

JDT UI:
- 3.3 M2 testing, fixing
- working on:
  - clean up profiles and clean up preference
page
  - lightweight refactoring dialogs
- discussions on field decoration & validation
- enhanced paste text action in Package Explorer to
create multiple
  compilation units if the copied source contains
multiple package
  declaration statements
- bug fixing

Debug:
- 3.3 M2 test & fix
- discovered cause of "painfully slow debugging"
on Linux:
  - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153458
  - Linux kernels > 2.6.14 must use the latest
VMs, else JDI performs poorly
- refactored "filters for virtual tree viewer"
- the implementation now
  lives in the content provider:
  - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153500
- continued developement of "launch options"
and launch participation to
  allow combining launch modes (for example,
profile & debug)

JDT Core:
- 3.3M2 and 3.2.1 validation
- bug fixing
- working on JSR199 (compiler API) support:
  - will create new project: org.eclipse.jdt.compiler.tool
with Java6 prereq
- improving codeassist for being more resilient to
missing imports prior
  to cursor location (but affecting _expression_
being completed)
- improving null reference diagnosis
- bug fixing

Runtime:
- cleanup of version tools
- started a prototype for new splash
- review server side code for graduation from incubator
- rework of the app model
- participation in the OSGi 4.1 meetings
- building Equinox demos for embedded devices
- working on implementation of OSGi AutoConfiguration
spec
- bug triage and fixing

SWT:
- finally finished with 3.2.1
- work continues on windows vista and windows 64-bit

UA:
- work continues on dynamic UA content contribution
through content
  providers (plan item)
- performance and responsiveness work for the remote
help
- bug fixes

PDE:
- collapse All and sorting button moved from upper-right
of the form to
  the associated section
- polish of the simple cheat sheet editor
- implementation started on the composite cheat sheet
editor
- bug fixes, Bug triage, M4 planning