Review of Mylyn

My new favorite Eclipse plugin is Mylyn: http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn. I was recently introduced to Mylyn by Darron Schall. I'm working on a project under him right now and Mylyn was a tool that he had been using for Trac integration.

Once you get your Trac permissions setup correctly, this thing is a breeze to use.

1. Set up a "Repository" (A link to the Trac, or Bugzilla site you're using)





2. Create a query. This query will produce a task list. So far, I've really only used this to get all the tasks that are assigned to me as I'm not doing any type of management on this project, but a project manager or team lead can easily create queries that let them monitor that status of a project.





3. Open your task list. (I've blurred some client related data here to protect NDAs.)



4. Open a task.




I really like how this brings the task list work flow right into the IDE. It's a great way to use Trac more efficiently.

Thanks for the tip Darron!