Third milestone of the Mylyn connector for Tuleap

Today the third milestone of the Mylyn connector for Tuleap has been released. In this new version, we have mainly worked on Mylyn Context integration, support for attachments and queries.

As we’ve seen before, you start by configuring your Mylyn repository with the URL of your Tuleap trackers. Starting with this release, you can retrieve the reports saved on the Tuleap server and execute them directly from Eclipse but you can also create your own queries by defining precisely your own critera.

When you open an artifact, you can use an editor parameterized by the definition of the tracker that you have created in Tuleap. This editor lets you edit your tasks directly from Eclipse. You can now freely download and upload attachments from this editor.

When a task is activated, the technical artifacts that you manipulate will be saved and the Package Explorer view will be filtered to display only the artifacts relevant to your work on this task. You can also store the context of your task directly as an attachment.

And of course, you can retrieve it in a couple of clicks.

When your task is activated, other tools can leverage the connection with Mylyn Context to adapt their behavior. As an example, EGit, the Eclipse Git tooling, will use the name and the state of the currently activated task to fill the message of your next commit.

Finally you can also attach a screenshot by using the dedicated tooling which let you take it directly from Eclipse. You will have the opportunity to edit the screenshot with various annotations.

This work is open source and available on Github under the Eclipse Public License. All milestones and integration builds that have been published can be found on Github too. For more information about this connector, don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog or follow me on Twitter.