Revision as of 10:57, 12 March 2012

Introduction

This document is a place to brainstorm about what we want to do in 0.5.

The official plan document is [eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/orion/plans/orion-project-plan-0-5.xml here].

Themes

Most of the work in Orion should fall under some agreed upon themes for the release. This is a working list of ideas. If some themes can be coalesced into others that is fine. To start this is a fairly large list which needs to be prioritized.

Language Tooling

• Parsers, Languages, Highlighting, Refactoring, etc.
  • +1 for Python

Platform

• 3rd Party Libraries existing upgrades and new libraries.
  • dojo 1.7 requires testing/removing workarounds
• Authentication
• Localization (i18N)
• Accessibility
• Search
  • Advanced search bug 369816 [Libing, John]
  • Phrase search bug 371038 [Libing, john]
• Compare
  • 3 way compare bug 364851 [Libing]
  • Advanced compare bug 370851 bug 370851 bug 368981 [Libing]
  • Consuming editor's projection model bug 362843 [Libing]
• Additional File Systems
• Plugin Model and Architecture for describing, identifying, discovering and installing
  • Support catalogs via a feed as well as page redirection
  • Internationalization strategy for plugins
• Preferences/Settings
  • UI, how does a plugin describe the user-changeable preferences - related to bug 340469 [ Anton ]
  • General settings bug 373287 [ Anton ]
  • Editor settings improvements bug 369346 and bug 372139
  • Support settings for Editors other than JavaScript
• Editor - bidi
• URI Templates
• Command line console bug 369608 [Kris]
• Access to server logs and stacktraces bug 372034
• Generic mechanism for cross page communication bug 372045
• Sequenced tasks
• Visual plugin, delegated content, and shell services (see wiki discussion) bug 372914
• Propagating markers from an out of client build back to Orion editor

User Experience

• Workflows, URI Template usage across sites
• Improve workflow for accepting contributions from github bug 369591 [Szymon]
• Integrate with GitHub and Gerrit review flow bug 372486
• Mobile experience
• Landing page (deferred from .4)
• Unify look & feel of all Git pages [Szymon, Libing]
• Unify/formalize use of section outliners, section replacement [Susan, Szymon, Anton] bug 368848
• Improve progress reporting bug 371261
• Improve file uploads - for single files as well as zips and native drag and drop bug 335890 [ John, Jay, Anton ]
• Open up a group of files that you were working on bug 373290
• Orion to restore itself to the last state you left in in when you last logged in ( files you were working on open in tabs etc )

Infrastructure

• Improve build capabilities to remove reliance on shell access bug 348575 [John]
• testing infrastructure
  • page level verification

Git support [Tomek]

• Support for Git Stash
• Git CLI bug 369608
• Add git merge --squash bug 351432
• Git submodule support bug 361909

Others?

• Deployment Scenario - Orion living on my website ( e.g HostMonster ). bug 373374