Difference between revisions of "PDE/Plan/3.7"

Revision as of 13:25, 13 August 2010

Unofficial Planning Document
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.

Planned Items

The following items are being considered for 3.7, but have not been scheduled into a specific milestone

API Tools

No input required:

Support API compatibility checks against unresolved bundles (271045)

Support include lists for API tools ant tasks (270973)

Support installation resolution for API tools tasks (322572)

Useful before Christmas:

Integrate API use reports into the IDE and workspace build (310547)

Support to filter references from an API use report (271044)

Consumer based API use report (322571)

Report delta between two API use reports (266903)

PDE UI

No input required:

Support bundle import from the package explorer (313392)

Properly import projects with a different name when project already exists in the workspace (310495)

Support to edit properties for .products (260328)

JDT is providing a patch:

Anonymous workspace for JUnit Plug-in Tests (127719)

Start early:

API for bundle importers and bundle import wizard pages (320552)

Avoid resolution of p2 based targets when contents cached locally (147968)

Schedule

Dates are listed in the Eclipse Platform Releng Calendar (view as iCal)

M1 - August 6

No Major Work Items

M2 - September 17

Prepare 3.6.1 Fixes

Create 3.7 Plan

Improve state initialization (312495)

M3 - October 29

M4 - December 10

M5 - January 28

Prepare 3.6.2 Fixes

M6 - March 11 (API Freeze)

M7 - April 29 (Feature Freeze)

RC Builds

Update Copyrights

Check for Broken NLS

Doc Pass

Bug fixing

Overall Goals

This section will list general goals for the 3.7 release using information from the Retrospective.

Code Quality - Review patches more carefully, write tests for new code, review risky fixes
Stability - Safe incremental improvements over one-off feature work

Unplanned Items

This section will list items that we are interested in completing during 3.7 but have not been scheduled. For general ideas, use the Wishlist.

Redo all performance tests

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 === API Tools ===
+No input required:
 {{PlanItem|Support API compatibility checks against unresolved bundles|271045|Investigate}}
 {{PlanItem|Support include lists for API tools ant tasks|270973|Investigate}}
 {{PlanItem|Support installation resolution for API tools tasks|322572|Investigate}}
-{{PlanItem|Support to filter references from an API use report|271044|Investigate}}
+Useful before Christmas:
 {{PlanItem|Integrate API use reports into the IDE and workspace build|310547|Investigate}}
+{{PlanItem|Support to filter references from an API use report|271044|Investigate}}
 {{PlanItem|Consumer based API use report|322571|Investigate}}
 {{PlanItem|Report delta between two API use reports|266903|Investigate}}
@@ Line 17: / Line 21: @@
 === PDE UI ===
-{{PlanItem|Anonymous workspace for JUnit Plug-in Tests|127719|Investigate}}
+No input required:
-{{PlanItem|API for bundle importers and bundle import wizard pages|320552|Investigate}}
 {{PlanItem|Support bundle import from the package explorer |313392|Investigate}}
 {{PlanItem|Properly import projects with a different name when project already exists in the workspace|310495|Investigate}}
 {{PlanItem|Support to edit properties for .products|260328|Investigate}}
+JDT is providing a patch:
+{{PlanItem|Anonymous workspace for JUnit Plug-in Tests|127719|Investigate}}
+Start early:
+{{PlanItem|API for bundle importers and bundle import wizard pages|320552|Investigate}}
 {{PlanItem|Avoid resolution of p2 based targets when contents cached locally|147968|Investigate}}
 == Schedule  ==

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