E4/Meeting Minutes/Status 20100311

Attendees

• Boris Bokowski
• Bogdan Gheorghe
• Dan Rubel
• Eric Moffatt
• John Arthorne
• McQ Wilson
• Oleg Besedin
• Paul Webster
• Remy Suen
• Simon Kaegi
• Susan McCourt
• Tom Schindl

Minutes

• Checkpoint: are we on track to ship in July? Eric looking into summarizing current state of compatibility
  • Is there a very big value in moving release to September?
  • Should we consider shorter release cycle, i.e., 4.0.1 shortly after 4.0

• Getting EclipseCon demo of CSS renderer ready
• Eric reviewing current state of compatibility layer
  • Some blocking bugs
  • Slow performance
  • Most things are working
  • Overall looking pretty good
• Changing internals of dependency injection
  • More consistent behavior and injection ordering
  • Fixing bugs in uninject, context reparenting
  • Looking at support for additional annotations for things like preferences
  • Extensibility for others to define injection-related annotations
• Reworking the e4 key binding system
  • Make compatibility key bindings work
  • Couple of days away from having this working
• Moved e4 debug work to JSDT, part of Helios release train
• Looking at dependency injection performance problems
  • Some low hanging fruit in osgi context lookup strategy
• Investigating setting up Eclipse SDK 4.0 build
• Some recent model changes, improvements to model reconciler
• Looking at changing UUIDs used in the model, getting help from EMF experts
• Working on e4 rover client
  • Prototyped new e4 services such as preferences
• Working on new sample applications
  • Need consistent identifiers to mark places where clients can contribute bits to the menus, so that they remain consistent over time
• Should use model element ids, rather than xmi: model identifiers
• Element ids are not globally unique so they need to be looked up contextually (same view in different windows has same id)
• How to handle legacy perspectives that use geometric regions like "left, right, bottom", into e4 regions that have semantic naming (primary navigation, secondary navigation, etc)
• Adapter service added
• Visual design
  • Iterating visual design and appearance of search bar and other trim
• Working on new workbench model tooling