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29 <h2>Mylyn Overview</h2> |
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31 <p>Mylyn documentation is available online at: <b> |
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32 <a href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn/start/">http://eclipse.org/mylyn/start</a> |
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34 <p>The New & Noteworthy for Mylyn 2.3 is at: <b> |
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35 <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/new">http://eclipse.org/mylyn/new</a> </b> </p> |
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36 <p>Mylyn is a task-focused UI for Eclipse that makes working with very large |
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37 workspaces as easy as working with small ones. Mylyn extends Eclipse with rich |
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38 facilities for keeping track of the tasks that you work and collaborate on. A |
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39 task is defined as any unit of work that you want to recall or share with |
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40 others, such as a bug reported by a user or a note to yourself about improving a |
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41 feature. You can store tasks locally in your workspace, or they can come from |
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42 one or more task repositories. To connect to a task repository, for example a |
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43 bug tracker such as Bugzilla, you must have a connector that supports that |
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44 repository. </p> |
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45 <p>Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity |
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46 on those tasks to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand. |
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47 System artifacts such as files, types, methods, and fields get assigned |
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48 a degree-of-interest based on how recently and frequently you interact |
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49 with them. This results in uninteresting elements being filtered from |
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50 view within Eclipse, allowing you to focus on on what is important. From |
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51 this, Mylyn creates a task context, which is the set of all artifacts |
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52 related to your task. These can include methods you have edited, APIs |
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53 you have referred to, and documents you have browsed. Mylyn uses this |
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54 task context to focus the Eclipse UI on interesting information, hide |
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55 what's uninteresting, and automatically find what's related. Having the |
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56 information you need to get your work done at your fingertips improves |
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57 your productivity by reducing the time you spend searching, scrolling, |
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58 and navigating. By making task context explicit, Mylyn also facilitates |
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59 multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.</p> |
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