mylyn the developers' best friend

What is Mylyn forMylyn in actionDemonstration

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Mylynthe developers’ best friend

Matyas Steiner

May 8, 2013

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TOC

What is Mylyn for

Mylyn in action

Demonstration

Conclusion

Other task-focused interfaces

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Cases you may be familiar with

I working on something but suddenly a P1 bug appears

I someone asking about your long forgotten artifact

I you worked on more than one story and bug(s) appear

What do they have in common?




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The problem in these cases

switching working context

First rule in Kanban:

Avoid changing context unless it is necessary.




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How can you solve this problem?

To be honest, you can’t. :-(

But the good news there are tools to help you :-)

one called:

Mylyn




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How Mylyn can help you

I during your work, Mylyn captures your movements (files,classes, methods)

I modified search, navigaton, scrolling mechanism, auto folding

I scheduling

I connectors for the major version control systemsI connectors for the major issue tracking systems

I create itemsI change flags, descriptionI link other issuesI enclose documents, working context, etc.I time tracking




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Saves your moves

this is not a big thing, but Mylyn will remember what you did




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Saves your moves


I auto folding




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Saves your moves


I outline




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Saves your moves


I open type, resources




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Connecting to the cloud

Mylyn plays well together with the most common issuetracking systems

I JIRA, GitHub, Bugzilla1, Trac, GoogleCode, etc.

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Connecting to the cloud

Mylyn can work with the major version control systems

I CVS1, Subversion, Perforce2, Git3, Mercurial4, etc.

1built-in2official p4 plug-in3EGit4MercurialEclipse




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Connecting to an issue tracking system

I get issues

I work offline

I synchronize to server




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Notifications

reduce your email account size




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How it actually works

degree-of-interest

I continuous update

I landmarks

I can be changed manually




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Demo

Some examples...




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Benefits above the cloud

I offline work

I context sharing

I only one app to use




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”all that glitters is not gold”

I custom states won’t be mapped

I synchronisation is not always perfect5

I problems with Eclipse ditributions, version conflicts

I ...

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Others

I Cubeon (Netbeans)

I Tasktop Dev6 (Visual Studio)

I TrackLink (IntelliJ)

I Org-mode (emacs)

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Thank you

Thanks for your attention

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Links

I www.tasktop.com/pdfs/mylyn/quickref/

mylyn3-quickref.pdf

I wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn/User_Guide

I www.tasktop.com/mylyn/mylyn-2.0-part1.php

I www.tasktop.com/pdfs/docs/tutorials/

2009-03-mylyn-tutorial.pdf

I help.tasktop.com/help/


www.tasktop.com/pdfs/mylyn/quickref/mylyn3-quickref.pdf

www.tasktop.com/pdfs/mylyn/quickref/mylyn3-quickref.pdf

wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn/User_Guide

www.tasktop.com/mylyn/mylyn-2.0-part1.php

www.tasktop.com/pdfs/docs/tutorials/2009-03-mylyn-tutorial.pdf

www.tasktop.com/pdfs/docs/tutorials/2009-03-mylyn-tutorial.pdf

help.tasktop.com/help/



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Acknowledgement

Adrienn Szabo - precious advices


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