How To See Tracker Items Within Eclipse: Difference between revisions

== Setting Up the Repository ==

The first step to access the trackers is to add a task repository for each tracker (in our case its only one: stendhal) based on the sourceforge template that comes with the freshly installed connector.

* Open the "Task Repositories" view

* Right-click the view and choose "Add task repository"

* Select "Web Template (Advanced)" and click next

* From the "Server" drop down menu choose "Sourceforge (jCommander)"

* Change the "Label" to help identify the repository e.g. Stendhal

* (Optional) Untick "Anonymous" and enter your sourceforge login details

* Expand "Additional Settings"

* Edit the "group_id" parameter and change it to Arianne's id: 1111

* The "atid" parameter will be changed later

* Expand "Advanced Configuration" and paste the following into "Query Request URL":<br>

${serverUrl}/tracker/?atid=${atid}&group_id=${group_id}&func=browse

* Click "Finish"

After having the repositories configured it is possible to query them.

* Open the "Task List" view to add the query

* Right-click the view and choose New -> Query

* Change "Query Title" and "atid" parameter for the different trackers as follows (Create a new query for each of them):

** 351111 for the feature requests tracker

** 973767 for the developers' tracker

** 101111 for the bug tracker

** 201111 for the support requests tracker

** 301111 for the patches tracker

* Click "Finish"

== Refining the Queries ==

The query can be refined by changing the "Query URL" of each query.

To show 100 items (that's the most I can show, I couldn't show all the items) add &limit=100 to the end of the query:

${serverUrl}/tracker/?atid=${atid}&group_id=${group_id}&func=browse&limit=100

To get all the issues that are assigned to a specific user you need to know the id associated with the user's sourceforge account. This can be obtained by going to that user's sourceforge user page (sourceforge.net/users/xxx where xxx is the username). In the "About Me" block it shows the "User Id". Put that number in the query with &assignee=yyy where yyy is the user ID.

${serverUrl}/tracker/?atid=${atid}&group_id=${group_id}&func=browse&assignee=SourceforgeUserID

To get all open issues add &status=1 to the query

${serverUrl}/tracker/?atid=${atid}&group_id=${group_id}&func=browse&status=1

Note that these can be mixed and matched so you can get 100 open issues by adding &limit=100&status=1 to the query.

* Activate Task -> Work on bug, complete fixing -> mark task as completed -> commit has a well prepared commit message prepared and the relevant files are already grouped into a dedicated change set automatically

== Links ==

[http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_Sourceforge_with_Mylyn Sourceforge with Mylyn on wiki.eclipse.org]