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PDE/Plan/3.6
Note: This is an unofficial document used by the PDE team to help with the planning process. Items on this list aren't guaranteed to be found in a release.
Contents
Schedule
Dates are listed in the Eclipse Platform Releng Calendar (view as iCal.
Scope
TODO
Priorities
- Revamp the PDE webpage to be more welcoming
- More bundle, less plug-in
- Get more committers
- one mailing list (ie., just pde-dev, get rid of pde-build-dev and pde-ui-dev)
Platforms
- Eclipse: 3.6
- Target Platforms back to 3.0 supported
- Java: J2SE 1.4 or later required
- Operating Systems: all supported by Eclipse
Ramp Down
TODO
Projects
API Tools
- bug 215073: [api tooling] Support for package versioning
Build
- bug 154083: Incremental Plug-in Build
- bug 106594: Make PDE fully workspace aware
- bug 222965: Use frameworkadmin to generate config.ini / eclipse.ini
UI
- bug 269573: [product] support more platforms in product files
- bug 260328: [product] add a way to specify properties
- bug 159072: [target] associate target definitions on a per-project basis (multiple target platforms per workspace)
- bug 106676: [pde viz] Graduate
- bug 142422: [refactoring] update class references in dependent plugins
- p2 publishing tooling (replace update site tooling)