[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Feb 28, 2008

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status
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User Assistance:
- committed a change to allow multiple remote infocenters
- set the minimum execution environment for org.eclipse.help back to
Foundation 1.0
- bug fixing

JDT APT status:
- EclipseCon talk
- bugzilla, inbox, newsgroups
- work on bug 196200, recovery of bindings for unresolved types
- testing

JDT UI:
- continued work/discussions with Platform UI on style cell label provider:
  - delegating and decorating style cell label provider
- committed contribution that allows to create an Ant build file for the
  current Runnable JAR File wizard settings
- reviewed and committed contribution that adds the possibility for
  RefactoringParticipants to execute changes *before* main refactoring
changes
  are executed. This is especially interesting for *undo* changes that need
to
  be executed *after* the main refactoring has modified the workspace.
- added UI for external class folder support (still work in progress)
- split 'Extract to local variable' quick assist into two variants
- adapted to changes in JDT core (more binding recovery)
- inbox tracking
- bug fixing

Platform Text and JDT Text:
- polishing rich hover APIs and fixing bugs
- added element image to Javadoc hover
- finished work to show quick fixes in rich Problem hover
- provided patch for Platform CVS that allows to sort tags in History view
- inbox tracking
- bug fixing

JDT Core:
- released  missing type support in compiler
- released external library folder support
- released api to get the location of a completion (member start, statement
start)
- keep working on comment formatter
- started work on finding references in .class files without source
attached

Debug:
- modules view added to the debug platform
- enhancements to execution environment description files
  - javadoc settings
  - bootpath extensions (-Dee.additional.dirs)
  - filter all -Dee.* properties from command line at launch time
- bug fixing

Equinonx:
- EclipseCon preparation
- started graduation process of equinox transforms (March 12 review)
- p2:
  - moved bugs to new bucket (Equinox/p2)
  - moved code to new location (out of the incubator)
  - http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/equinox-dev/msg03762.html
  - preparation for integration into the SDK
  - p2 status: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Status
- PDE/Build - working on p2 product IU generation
- security:
  - continued work on secure preferences:
    - redesign to simplify providers story, switch to a more comfortable
      custom interface from OSGi Preferences
- bug fixing
- bug triage

Rel. Eng.:
- added pde.api plugins into build + tests
- test builds for Equinox build changes, using Foundation 1.1 JREs, and new
RHEL5 test machines
- build changes to accommodate graduated bundles

Platform UI:
- startup error handling
- servicability pass of the IDE
- file image descriptor performance improvements
- decorator test suites (performance and otherwise)
- optimization of decorators
- release preparations for transforms
- startup threading API for RCP participation
- adding identifier references to UI schemas
- allow handlers to execute in a local context
- worked with JDT UI on better owner draw support in JFace
- activities now support core expression-based enablement
- new status/error dialog released (bug 191684) and polishing of the status
framework

PDE:
- API tooling:
  - integrated with releng builds, fixing problems with test suite
integration
  - setup wizard enhanced as refactoring, polish for API profile creation
wizard
  - simplified problem filters for initial release
  - designing API problem generation to be similar to Java builder's
IProblem's
- launch configs now have filtered tree in the plug-in's tab
- working on adopting colored labels
- bug fixing

Workspace:
- inbox tracking
- bug fixing for M6
- working on hidden resources due to external library folder support
- system values in proxy (bug 180921) in progress
- the hunk compare editor (bug 217070) in progress