[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - November 4, 2009

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status 
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Platform Workspace:
- the Platform Workspace 3.6 dev plan available under
 http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-team/team3.6/plan.php
- reviewing M4 plan
- polishing Resource Filters API, UI and implementation
(Bug 291755, Bug 292517)
- reviewing, refactoring and polishing Groups UI (Bug
292354), release planned during M4
- Bug 293185 - Symbolic link support doesn't work on the
AIX
- 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 [poc prepared]

JDT/Core
- 3.6M3 verification
- Bug fixes
- Patch reviews
- Continue investigation on jsr308

User Assistance
- Milestone testing 
- Fixing RTL problems in intro 

JDT UI
- shipped 3.6 M3
- participated in an interview about Java IDE comparison
- fixed various usages of "(s)" in strings (more
to follow)
- vacations

Platform Text and JDT Text
- shipped 3.6 M3
- added 2 pixel left margin to text widget in textual
editors
- stopped textual editors from switching direction on
Ctrl + Shift-Right/Left
- reviewed and committed several patches

Debug
- M3 test pass
- Reviewed launch configuration template design
        - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Debug/Plan/3.6/Launch_Templates
- Updated M4 plan
- Bug fixing

PDE
- M3 test pass
- Bug fixing
- Updated M4 plan

Equinox
- Support for low memory events (284061)
- p2 API work (query API, simplified p2 UI API)
- p2 support for multiple agents in a single system
- Fixing preference concurrency bug (158361)

SWT
- 3.6M3 test pass went well
- returning to WebKit investigation, IA2 and CSS work
- the usual bug triage, newsgroups and mailing list assistance

Performance:
- 3.5 perf tests:
  - no new build
- 3.6 perf tests:
  - verification for 3.6M3:
    - bug 294094: [perfs] Regression on 'Core
Headless Startup' test
      (against Platform/Runtime)

Releng:

-3.6M3 released, also delivered to Helios
-troubleshooting CVS timeout issues with webmasters
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=293355 
-fixed issues with performance tests now that test bundles
have switched to repo format
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=266486
-test builds with new 3.6M3 bundles
-I'd like to remove more platforms from the build. See
this bug for more information 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=293830
-bug fixing