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[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


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