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Discussion Topic
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User Assistance:
- Why are the tests timing out?
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Status
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JDT UI:
- upgraded JUnit to 4.7
- refresh in Call Hierarchy now refreshes selection only
- bug fixing
- vacations
Platform Text and JDT Text:
- added support to deal with unmappable characters on save
- overview ruler annotations at bottom now fully visible
Platform Search:
- bug fixing
JDT Core:
- bug fixes
- team reorganization
- vacations
- continue investigation on jsr 308 (grammar work almost complete)
- continue legal clearance process
Rel. Eng.:
- Eclipse 3.6M3 build schedule available:
- http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-releng/buildSchedule.html
- second windows machine added to performance run (Windows XP
with 1.6 Sun vm):
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/283026
- as of N20091020-200, the test bundles will be packaged as a repo and
installed with the director instead of being copied to the dropins folder
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/266486
- test builds for new linux.gtk.ppc64 platform:
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/291827
- test builds with new bundles to test new p2.remove.iu functionality
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/272140
SWT:
- built and ran SWT for 64-bit PPC Linux
-> this configuration will be built regularly some time during 3.6
development
- received initial BIDI contribution from contributors in Isreal
- beginning initial WebKit investigation
- new API: Composite.layout(Control[] changed, int flags)
- new OrientationChange event, sent by Text, StyledText and Combo
Debug
- design work and headless infrastructure for launch configuration
templates (41353)
PDE
- API use migration reporting (i.e. what breaks when migrating client
code to a new version of the SDK) (280463)
- experimenting with p2 extreme self-hosting (creating a profile on
self-hosting launch) (250126)
- warn when source folders added to source build (286808)
- PDE build support for compiler problem severity levels
- bug fixing
User Assistance:
- completed plan item "Improve remote help error codes"
- designed JUnits for remote help which start a second server
- requesting feedback on the new intro theme (Bug 274911 is already
planned for 3.6)
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 219570 - [Sync View] "Link with Editor" for Synchronize view
[fixed]
- Bug 260531 - [compare] auto-indent not working as expected
[almost fixed]
- polishing Resource Filters API, UI and implementation (Bug 291755,
Bug 292517)
- Bug 290201 - Symbolic link support doesn't work on the Mac/AIX
[in progress]
- Bug 289637 - LocalFile#move fails when a link with nonexistent
target is moved [in progress]
- Bug 290318 - need a means to represent dead symbolic links in
resource tree [in progress]
- investigating Bug 271137 - CVS Repository view support for
Logical Model
Equinox:
- p2 API work. Done for M3 starting work early for M4.
- multiple instances of p2 services in a single framework instance
- server side provisioning work
- investigate running p2 on other frameworks
- OSGi specification work (RFP 121, RFC 138):
- RFC 138 prototyping
Performance:
- 3.5 perf tests:
- verification for build M20091007-1025:
- nothing new
- 3.6 perf tests:
- not possible to verify results since last week:
- build N20091015-2000 failed
- lot of results for build N20091017-2000 are missing
- run for build I20091020-0931 is not finished yet