| [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Oct 7, 2009 |
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Status
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JDT APT:
- newsgroups, conf calls, inbox, Bugzilla
- design discussions on how to reduce APT memory requirements
- working on some architecture documentation to try to clarify
the very tangled APT execution path, with hopes of a possible
refactor in preparation for more performance work
Equinox:
- ongoing specification work:
- next OSGi specification has been push out past Helios release
- most Framework development will be done in a branch in
parallel to Helios
- composite Frameworks
- generification of OSGi APIs
- investigating the usage of p2 for marketplace.eclipse.org
- SR1 release assistance
- server side experiments
- bug fixing
- launcher work (removal of Win 98 support)
- Investigate servlet filter support for http service
User Assistance:
- continued working on implementation of see also for keyword index
- starting to develop remote help tests
Rel. Eng.:
- investigating running tests on Amazon EC2:
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=247320
- investigating "Build Failures: the Mini-series"
- bug fixing
JDT UI:
- Windows 7 testing: looks good for JDT Core and JDT UI
- dropping an URL to JUnit results onto JUnit view imports the
test results
- added preference transfer for compiler preferences
- added preference transfer for Java Appearance preferences
- continued to work on computing Type Hierarchy view's content
in the background
- continued to work on improved UI for configuring the 'Expand
with Constructors' feature in the Call Hierarchy
- 1 public holiday
Platform Text and JDT Text:
- Windows 7 testing: looks good for Text
Platform Search:
- Windows 7 testing: looks good for Search
Performance:
- 3.5 perf tests:
- verification for build M20090930-0825:
- nothing new
- 3.6 perf tests:
- verification for build I20091006-0800:
- nothing new
Workspace:
- the Platform Workspace 3.6 dev plan available under:
- http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-team/team3.6/plan.php
- inbox tracking and M3 bug fixing
- Bug 284148 - Merge e4 resources changes back into 3.x stream
IN PROGRESS (groups and filters experimental API released to HEAD)
- Bug 124039 - [Wizards] Show model sync in commit dialog
IN PROGRESS
- Bug 274262 - [History] Allow to never prune history
IN PROGRESS
- Bug 290201 - Symbolic link support doesn't work on the Mac/AIX
ADDED to the dev plan (planned for M3)
- Bug 289637 - LocalFile#move fails when a link with nonexistent
target is moved ADDED to the plan (planned for M3)
JDT Core:
- bug fixes
- planning
- working on legal issues
- vacations
Debug/Ant:
- working on headless support for external tools/ant launching
- contribution for enhanced breakpoints view updated, waiting
for review (bug 238956)
PDE:
- improved API Use Report organization:
- bug 289903, bug 291082
- support to synchronize target platform with "Java search"
- bug 1751340
- working on enhancements to build.properties validation
- bug fixing
SWT:
- new Browser API: setUrl(url, postData, headers)
- investigating IA2 and UIA accessibility technologies, and
new swt accessibility API
- investigating API for CSS styling
- 3.6 bug fixing, including:
- three bugs specific to Windows 7
- on Windows, GC.drawText() now always draws like GDI,
even if GDI+ is being used