During the last couple of weeks, Mélanie and I have been working...
During the last couple of weeks, Mélanie and I have been working together on a brand new connector for Mylyn Task in order to bring support for the open source application lifecycle management suite Tuleap into Eclipse.
Tuleap provides a lot of features from wiki and forum to trackers and we worked on the integration of Tuleap trackers and Mylyn Task. In Tuleap, you can configure your trackers as you wish. You can choose precisely all the widgets that will be available and you can customize their behavior. To match this behavior, the editor of the Mylyn Connector for Tuleap is parameterized by the description of the Tuleap tracker.
As in any other Mylyn Task connector, you can synchronize artifacts by defining queries which will be executed on the server. You can also create new artifacts locally and then synchronize them later with the server. Once an artifact has been synchronized with the server, Mylyn will update the artifacts with the changes that have occurred on the server automatically and you will be able to publish new changes too.
This ongoing work is open source and available under the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and it will be contributed to the Eclipse Foundation in the months to come. It is currently hosted on Github.