I’m not sure how I missed this one because it released last week. Thanks to fellow Zender Yossi Leon for sending the URL out. The plan can be seen on the Eclipse website’s PHPIDE section. Since it’s a pretty short document, I’ll just re-post it here for you.

The plan of the 0.7 version is based on the initial SRS which is available here. On top of that SRS many bugs were submitted together with enhancement requests that were/will be included in the 0.7 release. You can find all PHP IDE open bugs here=.

The first part of the plan deals with the important matters of release deliverables, release milestones, target operating environments, and release-to-release compatibility. These are all things that need to be clear for any release, even if no features were to change.

Release Deliverables

The release deliverables are:

  • Source code release for PHP IDE is available in the eclipse.org CVS repositories for PHP.
  • PHP IDE runtime binaries and SDK distributions are available in the download page.
  • PHP IDE runtime binaries and SDK features are available on eclipse.org update site (install via Eclipse update manager).

Release Milestones

PHP IDE builds are available weekly as Integration builds. PHP IDE Milestone Releases are approximately every six weeks of integration builds.

Following the final milestone, release candidates will begin. There should be at least two release candidates before the actual release. Scheduled release candidates should end one week before the release.

  • 0.7M3 – 26th of October 2006
  • 0.7M4 – 21st of December 2006
  • 0.7RC1 – 1st of January 2007
  • 0.7RC2 – 29th of January 2007

Target Operating Environments

PHP IDE 0.7 will support all operating environments supported by the Eclipse Platform itself. For a list of supported environments, refer to Eclipse Project 3.2 for a list of reference platforms.
Outstanding Issues

The outstanding issues that should require further investigation are:

  • API – Complete the API design so other projects can be based on with minimal changes. Provide extensibility mainly for model, debugger and parser.
  • Debugging – Provide the best solution for the PHP developer in terms of usability, simplicity and PHP behavior. This part was improved many times and will continue to be changed for the best PHP solution.
  • Integration with WTP – Discussion about it is available on the Wiki.