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December 18th 2008

Keep on sMylyn

Avishay Halperen & Ori Dar

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Agenda

• What is it ? Why ? How ?

• Mylyn Project

• Demo

• Mylyn – Extra Features

• Tasktop

• Summary

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What ? Why ?

How?

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WH Questions - What

•What is Mylyn ?• Before I answer …

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• How do you handle your development tasks ?

• Using an issue tracker / task management tool

WH Questions - How

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WH Questions - How

• How do you keep track of time that you spend on each assignment?

• How do you connect a task to your code?

• How do you share your work between developers?

• How do you handle all the information inside the IDE?

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WH Questions - Who

• Who cares about task management?

• Your boss

• You

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Friction & Distraction

• Where is our time being spent?

• Slow machines

• Administration/Configuration

• Constant Searching

• Multitasking – context lost

• Data overload

• Interruptions

• What can we do?

• Memory, CPU …

• IDE helps

• Task focus

• Task context

• Less is more

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WH Questions - What

• What is Mylyn?

• Task focused User Interface for Eclipse

• Integrates tasks into daily development process.

• Tracks and manage the context of the tasks you work on.

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WH Questions - What

• What is Mylyn?

• Reduces information overload

• Allows sharing your work between developers

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Background

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Background

Project started on Q1 2006

From Tasktop Technologies

Mylyn project lead Mik Kersten

Mylyn 3.0 released on Jun 25,2008

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Background

Project formerly called Mylar

trademark of a boPET film company

Mylyn name comes from Myelin

electrically-insulating layer surrounding nerve cells

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Get started with …

• Task

• Connector

• Task Repository Connector

• Eco-system

• Task Context

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Task

• Task is the basic unit of work.

• Tasks exist in task repositories

• Task is a first class citizen of your IDE

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Connector

• A Connector integrates a remote task repository to Mylyn

• A task repository Connector can be an issue tracker such as:

• Bugzilla, JIRA, Trac

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Connector

• Task repository Connector provides:

• Queries• Retrieving sets of tasks into Mylyn's Task List

• Rich editing • Edit tasks within Eclipse

• Support Hyper linking, drag-and-drop

• Attachments

• Offline support• Access your tasks even when disconnected from

server

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Eco-System

Trademark of Tasktop

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Task Context

• The fun begins …

• Mylyn monitors your interaction

• Creates a degree-of-interest model

• Context is obvious and managed

• Display only relevant information according to your active task.

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Demo overview

• Task List

• Connectors ( using JIRA)

• Task Scheduling

• Task Context

• Change Sets

• Context Sharing

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Demo

Presented by Ori Dar

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Mylyn

Extra Features

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New Features Summary – V.3

• Create repository tasks offline

• UI Features

• Create tasks from anywhere (JUnit fail test, markers, text selections)

• Notification popups

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New Features Summary – V.3

• UI Features

• Task list restore improvements

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New Features Summary – V.3

• UI Features

• Task content assist

• drag-and-drop, auto completion

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New Features Summary – V.3

• UI Features

• Improved subtask support (even for Bugzilla)

• Task Editor

• Attachment improvements

• Screenshot annotations

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Mylyn - Extra

• SpringSource tool suite

• Spring IDE

• extends Mylyn’s task focus UI

• Not only for Java files but for spring beans as well.

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SpringSource tool suite

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SpringSource tool suite

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Tasktop

• Tasktop is based on Mylyn

• Tasktop extended features:

• Email integration for Gmail. (Gmail Connector)

• Web navigation, File navigation

• Tabbed Web browser

• Microsoft Outlook integration

• …

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Tasktop

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Summary

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Summary

• Task Oriented Programming

• Improves productivity

• Show me what is important

• Rely on your IDE to handle tasks just as it handles Java.

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Summary

• What Next ?

• WikiText integration and internationalization

• Performance enhancements

• Update Connectors

• support for Bugzilla 3.2

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Road Map

• Mylyn 2.1 Sep 26, 2007 462 bug resolved

• Mylyn 2.2 Dec 19, 2007 384 bug resolved

• Mylyn 2.3 Feb 27, 2008 276 bug resolved

• Mylyn 3.0 Jun 25, 2008 581 bug resolved

• Mylyn 3.0.2 Sep 26, 2008 283 bug resolved

• Mylyn 3.0.3 Oct 15, daylight savings bug fix.

• What next ?

• Mylyn 3.1 March, 2009

• Mylyn 3.2 June, 2009

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References

• Mylyn project at Eclipse:

http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/

• Tasktop homepage:

http://tasktop.com/

• Mik Kersten blog at Tasktop:

http://tasktop.com/blog/

• Mylyn 3.0 web cast :

http://www.tasktop.com/videos/mylyn/webcast-mylyn-3.0.html

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Thank Thank You !You !