#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.

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.