First day with Mylar
Saturday Marcello pointed me to Mylar,
…. a task-focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA
Since we are using Jira and CVS, this morning I’ve installed Mylar in my development environment, and tried it a bit to see how it works. And I have to say… it’s great!
In brief, Mylar allows you to navigate through your tasks (stored in Jira, Bugzilla or Trac) directly in an Eclipse view and to insert/modify them using an embedded editor. Then, using CVS or Subversion integration, you can track all the modifications made to your project in order to solve an issue/bug, generate automatically commit comments and find the issue/bug associated with a file version.
There are quite a lot of other functionalities in Mylar… but I’m still learning them. In the meantime, don’t wait to check it out.
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