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Eclipse Mylyn

Access your bug trackers inside Eclipse, and work more productively with a task-focused user interface.

Download Eclipse Mylar 2.0.0.M3 for EasyEclipse 1.2.2:

Download Eclipse Mylyn 2.0.0 for EasyEclipse 1.3:

Mylyn adds two main, related, capabilities to Eclipse:

Integration with task repositories (Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA included), including the possibility to work with these repositories offline, when you don't have acces to the server.
Task-focused user interface that makes working with very large workspaces as easy as working with small ones,

Mylyn can monitor your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand. Mylyn uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what's related.

Note: Until release 1.2.2, Mylyn was called Mylar.

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Installing this plugin

This plugin is not shipped in any distribution. You must manually install it on an EasyEclipse distribution.

The dependent plugins Eclipse Java Development Tools and Eclipse CVS client must be present in the EasyEclipse distribution you use, or must be installed separately.

Getting started

Help is available for this plugin, in the Help > Help Contents menu in EasyEclipse.

However, the included help is minimal. You will find more help online.

Two tutorials are also present. To access the tutorials, select Help > Welcome, and in the welcome page, select the Tutorials icon (checkbox and pen). Then select Mylyn > Use the Task List or Mylyn > Use the Task-Focused UI.

Note also that to use some functionalities of the Task repositories integration, in particular to cache the tasks in Mylyn and work off-line, you must install some specific software on the Task repository server. See the FAQ for more information.

Tests

(Notes that tests are only displayed if the page is served statically)

Passing:

 REQUIRES BEING ONLINE
      - Window > show view > others..., Mylyn > task Repository.
      - right-click on Task Repository view, Add task repository. Should have three items in list: Bugzilla, Jira, Trac.
      - select bugzilla, next
      - Server, put "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/", Validate settings, should say "repository is valid", finish
      - In Task Repository view, right-click on entry just created, select Open repository task, enter number (10000), Ok, should open issue in editor.

Passing:

 REQUIRES BEING ONLINE
      - Window > show view > others..., Mylyn > task Repository.
      - Window > show view > others..., Mylyn > task List.
      - right-click on Task Repository view, Add task repository. Should have three items in list: Bugzilla, Jira, Trac.
      - select trac, next
      - Server, put "https://dev.nexb.us/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi", uncheck "anonymous", put credentials, Validate settings, should say "Authentication credentials are valid", finish
      - In Task Repository view, right-click on entry just created, select New Query, query title: warnings, Summary contains warning, Finish
      - should show a few tickets in Task List view

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Changelog

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.3.0:

Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 2.0.0.
Changed name from Mylar to Mylyn.
Changed composition: Added the Mylyn SDK, so that the Subclipse Mylyn plugin has all its dependency. Left out, however, the org.eclipse.mylyn.pde.ui that has a dependency on Eclipse PDE.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.2.2:

Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 2.0.0.M3.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.2.1.1:

Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 0.9.2.
Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 1.0.0.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.2.1:

Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 0.9.0.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.0:

Initial release (with Eclipse Mylyn 0.5.0).

Credits and License

Credits: Eclipse Foundation, Mik Kersten, Mylyn team

This plugin is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 license.