| CollabNet Integrates Eclipse Mylar Task Management | | Print | |
| Thursday, 08 March 2007 | |
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CollabNet, which has helped popularize the open source Subversion source code control and issue tracking system, is teaming up with the newly formed company TaskTop Technologies, to integrate the task prioritization technology from the open source Eclipse Mylar project. Specifically, Mylar helps developers filter out extraneous tasks to concentrate only on the ones relevant to them, or to their particular project. So it groups related tasks such as bug tracking and email into a common task list.
As we reported last December, the goal of Mylar was to be as low profile as possible. So the only step that developers must take to activate Mylar’s context-based task filtering is to click open a work space, or close it when the task is done or the bug resolved. Otherwise, Mylar the updates the task list automatically based on what’s in the underlying repository of the source tool. Mylar has been developed for the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) so you can work on or offline, and is being incorporated into Eclipse-based tools such as CodeGear’s (a.k.a., Borland’s) JBuilder IDE. Previously, Mylar integrated with open source issue tracking systems such as Bugzilla, JIRA and Trac. With the CollabNet announcement, Mylar will also integrate issue tracking from CollabNet Enterprise Edition, which is built around Subversion. Developers will be able to view CollabNet tasks from the Eclipse environment that are filtered for them, and be able to switch tasks with only a single click. It’s not the first time that CollabNet and Mylar have met. Both have been linked through the Subclipse project hosted through CollabNet-affiliated Tigris.org (it’s not an Eclipse project). Subclipse provides the user interface to Subversion from within the Eclipse IDE. And in fact, back when TaskTop was being formed, CollabNet, Borland, and the Apache Maven (build tool) project had already announced their support. According to Martin Doettling, vice president of worldwide marketing for CollabNet, the tie-in came about through users on CollabNet’s Open CollabNet open source site, where Mylar was contributed. “It was not initiated by CollabNet itself,” he explained. But the stage was set for linking the two when Mylar project leader Mik Kersten founded TaskTop as a commercial entity late last year. According to CollabNet’s Doettling, the integration should be commercially available by late April or early may.             |
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