CorePlan71

Core Plan 7.1 (Extended Platform team's plan)

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Platform

Core

• performance - 197985 - remove checking for external changes completely
• performance - 57798 - evaluate possibility of separating userdir into two locations, configuration and cache areas separately, which is important for windows users with roaming profiles - partial solution in 7.1 (--cachedir option)
• API flexibility - 77210 - Savable interface replacing SaveCookie; registry for SaveAllAction & Exit dialog
• API flexibility - 196810 - @MultiViewElement.Registration & EditorSupport.forMimeType("....")

Window System

• usability - 198853, 198854, 198855 Minimize / Undock TopComponent groups, and drag and drop to define new mode layout
• usability - 198856 support multiple window layouts (perspectives)
• usability - Dropdown selection for toolbar overflow situation (minor UI enhancement)
• usability - Editor window splitting in horizontal and vertical direction for multiple views on the edited file
• flexibility - Multiview improvements

FX components for Platform and IDE

Concurrent work:

• experiment with JFXPanel inside TopComponent (esp. with the web FX component)

Debugger

198850 - GUI Debugger:

• new debugger views and actions aware of application UI specifics (targeting Swing, also FX)
• debugging of layout-related issues
• debugging of event-related issues
• features - exploration of app's UI component hierarchy, navigation from hierarchy to code, investigation of component's properties, investigation of the log of events flowing in the application, ...
• UI/API of this feature designed with other uses considered (e.g. animations specific to FX)

Debugger usability (ref.):

• 192708 - Code-completion for methods and fields in debugger fields (est. 1w)
• 135064 - Code-completion for method name textfield of add breakpoint dialog (est. 1w)
• 197707 - Breakpoint enabling/disabling triggered by another breakpoint being hit (est. 1w)
• List-type view in Variables and Watches windows (<variable> = <value>) (est. 2w)

Versionings and Bugtrackings

• API stability - Bugtracking API stabilization and making public to encourage community contributions

• performance - Versioning API improvements for scalability using annotations

• Git support finalization, stabilization and move from UC to standard distro
  • milestones M5 and M6 in the git plan
  • move to standard distro

• move CVS from standard distro to Certified UC

• usability and visibility - 198115 - Local history and VCS history available in an extra tab in the open file's editor TopComponent

• Subversion usability
  • update for Svn 1.7 (est. 1w)
  • support for locking (est. 1-2w)

• Mercurial usability
  • support for branches and tags (168855)

Connected Developer

• usability of the current CDev features (ref.)
  • richer and smarter functionality of bugtracking view
    • improved display of comments
    • hyperlinks on camel case strings found in projects
    • smart context actions on selection in issue comments (find type/resource, search in projects/, go to)
    • file previews
    • bugzilla specific improvements - time tracking, reassign to default, URL field hyperlink,..

• Hudson integration:
  • usability
    • showing unit test failures from Hudson job in Unit Test output
    • showing other failure messages from Hudson job output in Tasklist in NetBeans
  • some of the considered computing jobs specific to our IDE, e.g.:
    • parsing and indexing on server with search queries from the IDE

• stability and flexibility - rewrite use of Mylyn connectors to be based on Netbinox

Unit Tests

• focus on bugfixing
• some of the many usability enhancements

Maven

More stabilization and some usability enhancements. Possibly some of:

• 172502 (and others like #175472, #188964, #197669, #189442, #193021) - UI to fix missing deps
• 198151 - deploy OSGi to GFv3
• 189341 - "Dependencies" panel
• 191116 - Maven 3 upgrade hints
• 172675 - easier adding of ad-hoc libs
• 155091 - "Shade Plugin" handling w/ CC
• 191864 - source roots added by plugins
• 192647 (also #191518, #190849) - classpath fixes
• 187620 (also #192797, #180519) - alt. JUnit plugin support
• 187648 - AP config
• 153420 - KB shortcuts
• 192992 - Resume from Failure
• 191951 - New Project not cancelable
• 191538 - M3 APIs for dep graph
• 189496 - better JDK selection
• 196610 - transient custom repos