I tried Mylar today without any problem at all (apart to learn using UI ;o). I highly recommend to everybody working with many tasks in Eclipse to try Mylar to ! Jira-Mylar integration is not yet perfect but context focusing alone is already a very interesting concept of practical use IMHO.
The basic concept of context is that Mylar is automatically associating a set of open files (with position in files, outline, etc.) with the current task activated. To swith from a task to another simply activate the task. It took me some time to understanding it's not the default action when you double-click on task but opening the task itself wich seems less intersting IMHO. I did not find a way yet to specify the default action, but that's extremely minor. I relied before on opening many tabs/editor but was trapped by the fact that when I was closing a project I losed (some time not any, weird) some editors (opened files). And in case of Eclipse bad bug (every 2 months or such) I was losing all my working configuration :'( I really feel that Mylar is opening a new vision when working with Eclipse. With Jira complete integration (that too should not delay I hope) it shoud be a must to use, at least for commiters. Jacques From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ean, > > I will try with last version on my machine (XpSp2, 3Ghz, 1Go Ram + 1Go next > week, 2 SATA 7200 t/min with right balance between > virtual memory and applications) and will let you know. > > Thanks for comment > > Jacques > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ean Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Jacques Le Roux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 2:47 AM > Subject: Re: Mylar and Jira > > > > On Thursday 04 January 2007 19:21, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > > > Finally after a quick look at Mik Kersten bio I did not resist to see what > > > is exactly Mylar. Wooow... I have just been thru the 1st 30min of the 1st > > > demo here http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/start.php and I think it's worth > > > the > > > try. I have noticed that it needs Java 1.5 to run (thru Eclipse of course) > > > and that at the time the video was done (oct 2006) "context storage" was > > > not yet supported for JIRA but you were able to do that indirectly trough > > > attachments. Or even sent these contexts over emails. But that does not > > > mean that you can't use Jira if I follow what is explained at the bottom > > > of > > > the link above : Web only: Reports linked via drag-and-drop, editing via > > > embedded browser, (any web-based repository) Query support: Repository > > > queries in task list view (currently Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA and web > > > connector templates) Full integration: Authoring of reports within native > > > Eclipse editor, offline editing, incoming/outgoing status, compare and > > > change notifications. (Bugzilla, JIRA and Trac) > > > > I've used Mylar and its pretty darn cool. You better have a pretty burly > > machine though. Last time I tried to use it my 3.2GHz + 2G of RAM + RAID > > equipped workstation was not entirely responsive. > > > > When I used it last the support for contexts was incomplete on everything > > but > > Bugzilla so I may be pretty out of the loop. > > > > -- > > Ean Schuessler, CTO > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 214-720-0700 x 315 > > Brainfood, Inc. > > http://www.brainfood.com
