[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - November 11, 2009

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status 
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JDT UI
- 3.6 M4 planning
- worked on fix regarding product customization
of Java compliance level
- source actions now generate methods
in declaration order (not always alphabetically)
- bug fixes and code cleanup in Jar-in-Jar
exporter- 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
- continued to work on support for message
key constants in 'Find Broken Externalized Strings'
- started to improve the note on the
Compiler > Javadoc preference page
- reviewed several patches
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking

Platform Text and JDT Text
- 3.6 M4 planning
- improved Overview ruler / scroll bar
synchronization by using new API in SWT ScrollBar
- content assist now filters setter
proposals for final fields
- content assist for getter/setter proposal
can handle name clashes
- reviewed several patches
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking

Platform Search
- fixed a bug in the algorithm that
computes the search page for a selection

Platform Workspace:
- the Platform Workspace 3.6 dev plan
available under  http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-team/team3.6/plan.php
- M4 bug fixing and backporting fixes
to 3.5.2
- Bug 293185 - Symbolic link support
doesn't work on the AIX [fixed]
- Tomasz on vacation this week till
Wednesday
- Polish Independence Day on Wednesday
http://www.poland.pl/news/article.htm?id=135804

JDT/Core
- Bug fixes
- Inbox tracking
- Continue work on jsr308. Grammar changes
seem to be complete now
- Improve stability of the code formatter
around placing comments
- Investigating corner cases in generics
compilation
- Investigating memory usage in APT

Performances:
- 3.5 perf tests:
  - verification for M20091104-0800:
    - Some components have
weird results on the Windows machine
      It seems that this
machine slows down again
- 3.6 perf tests:
  - no results in DB for build
I20091110-0800
  - verification for N20091107-2000:
    - nothing new
Ant
-  Bug fixing

Debug
- Working on user interface for launch
configuration templates
- Monthly community meeting: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Debug/Phone_5-Nov-2009
- Bug fixing

Equinox
- Attending Portland OSGi specification
meetings
- Servlet filters patch being reviewed

- Discussion of a proposed new predicate
language for p2 queries from Buckminster 
- Making profile preferences multi-agent
aware 
- Major refactoring of p2 UI code, creation
of simple p2 operation API
- Some progress and running p2 on felix

- Investigating launcher bug causing
JIT to not work on AIX (293840)

PDE
- Working on target definition enhancements
in p2's API branch
- Continued work on build.properties
validation/synch with project settings
- Bug fixing

Releng
-test builds for JUnit4 changes
-added linux.gtk.ppc64 port to build,
removed s390* builds
-added org.eclipse.core.filesystem.aix.ppc
and org.eclipse.core.net.linux.x86_ 64 fragments to build
-Hardware swarm at eclipse foundation
may be able to help out with tests 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=294330 
-bug fixing