JSDT/Confcalls/Minutes 20160202

Logistics

See JSDT/Confcalls

Attendees

Gorkem,Ian,Chuck,Patrik,Alina,Adalberto,Alexey Kazakov,Ilya,Mikael Istria, Victor, Victor Sosa

Meeting Notes

• Icons:
  • Patrik provided 2 icons for npm and bower (bug 484218) . Victor has started a CQ for that. (ip 10827)
• Debugger:
  • Shane has started working on some debugger problems. The initial issue is related to Hoovers & tooltips on debugger.
  • Angelo is also working on problem markers and tooltips / related to debugger
  • Chrome dev tools will become a seperate feature set to help adopters to use their own forks.

 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486504 - [Bug 486504] Rename Chome Developer Tools features and include them into main JSDT Debug feature

• • On debugger's tooltips for variables:

   It might be usefull to combine the work on the debugger's tooltips with the comming work on JavaScript Editor's problem Hover Tooltips that is on the way, at least to have the same/similar formats for displaying the information in the hovers:
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486293 - [Bug 486293] New: Tooltips and Content Assist Additional Info window contain black text on black backgroung

• Grunt/Gulp:
  • https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486956
  • First initial drop is due this week
  • CNF contribution and launch configurations are part of this first drop

• JSON Editor:

   M5 includes JSON Editor with lots of bugs , i.e. NPEs on empty editor, sometimes on content assist. A big issue is lack of sync with model editor: 
   The most important issue is:
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486860 - [Bug 486860] Sync of IJSONModel with editor should be improved/fixed 
   The other known issues to be resolved at the moment:
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=485694 - [Bug 485694] NPE when you invoke content assist into an empty file on JSON editor
   We need a general icon for JSON files to use them in JSON Editors

• Parser:

   The current work is ES5 compliant and working on the ES6 language features. We should be ready for early integrations next week.

• Completion Engine:

   Half of keyword completion engine complete (base functionality), moving on to tests and identifier engine
  SWTBot: Can be tricky to use  for completion tests.

• Target platform and project set files

     - TP: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486944
    - psf https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486037#c4
   The old (a really outdated) PSF file for JSDT project can be found at WTP JSDT project's site: https://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jsdt/ as well as some information on JSDT project.
   Because this site is a part of WTP Website project (git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/www.eclipse.org/webtools.git)  we have to post a patch/push a gerrit change for every update we are going to do. So, I think the easiest way for us is to open a wikki page for all the environment setup info, edit it and, once it gets ready, copy its information back to WTP JSDT's site.

     Documents to improve: 
         - https://wiki.eclipse.org/JSDT/Development - JSDT development page, for contributors. Wiki page easy to fix
         - https://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jsdt/ needs to be updated,  

               - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=477020 missing link on a webpage

   - psf outdated  ( read bug 486037 above ) 

   --> Webtools.JSDT website is contained in webtols repository 

         - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486663 API docs missing in help documentation (NOT discussed in meeting )

• JavaScript Validators:

         Batch Validator: No updates
        As you type validator: Victor is investigating the possiblity to use WTP style validators and retask builder.
        (validation on reconciliaton, as is done in JDT, will be examined after disabling the JS parser)[Hope I understood correctly , Patrik]
            

• Upversioning: JSDT will be upversioned to 2.0 and we will find out about any other versioning requirements for other WTP components

• Most of the Red Hatters are travelling next week, Gorkem will arrange for a shorter meeting next week.