an introduction to eclipse mylyn
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Short introduction to Eclipse Mylyn and its ideaTRANSCRIPT
An Introduction to the
task-focused interface
Presented by Jeffrey Groneberg
(920602)
• About Eclipse Mylyn • Idea • Getting started • Demo • Review • References
• Developed by Mik Kersten during his Phd-thesis
• Project-Site: –www.eclipse.org/mylyn
• Mylyn is a plugin for Eclipse
• Open-Source
How much time are you really developing during a working
day?
• Most of the time we are: – Searching –Analyzing –Closing and opening documents – Scrolling – Summarizing – Reporting
• Less of the time we are:
–Developing –Doing our tasks
Concentrate on what is neccessary!
• Building tasks • See those things in the IDE which are
related to a specific task (files, packages, libraries, methods and editors)
• Be on schedule • Report what you have done and what
others have to do
• Integrate into ticket systems (task repositories) e.g. JIRA, Mantis, Trac
• Collaborate with your team • Use MyLyn for Office documents • Develope own integration with a
plugin –http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/M
ylyn_Extensions
• Should be integrated in recent Eclipse distributions
• If not: –Eclipse -> Help -> Install new
Software –http://download.eclipse.org/tools/m
ylyn/update/e3.4
• Hide complexity • Report and forward bugs/features and
appropriate context to experts • Almost anything can be packaged as
a task • Collaborate (virtual teams) • Congregate knowledge due to
repository
• Mighty • Quite impressed by its ease to use and
effectiveness • People have to rethink
– They have to learn to write tasks and build good context
– Trainings may be needed • Processes are needed for reviewing finished tasks
(Quality gateway for tasks ) • Could produce overhead
– Simple/trivial things are provided as task – Maybe some kind of moderation is needed
• Will start to use it now for private
• Tutorials & Introductions
– http://tasktop.com/mylyn/ – http://tasktop.com/resources/tutorials/ – http://tasktop.com/videos/mylyn/webcast-
mylyn-3.0.html – http://tasktop.com/videos/w-jax/kersten-
keynote.html