Short introduction to Eclipse Mylyn and its idea

1. An Introduction to the
task-focused interface
Presented by
Jeffrey Groneberg
(920602)

2. • About Eclipse Mylyn
• Idea
• Getting started
• Demo
• Review
• References

3. • Developed by Mik Kersten
during his Phd-thesis
• Project-Site:
– www.eclipse.org/mylyn
• Mylyn is a plugin for
Eclipse
• Open-Source

5. How much time are you really
developing during a working
day?

6. • 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

7. Concentrate on what is
neccessary!

8. • 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

9. • 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

10. • Should be integrated in recent Eclipse
distributions
• If not:
– Eclipse -> Help -> Install new
Software
– http://download.eclipse.org/tools/m
ylyn/update/e3.4

12. • 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

13. • 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

14. • 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