How To See Tracker Items Within Eclipse

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Some might want to see the open tracker items or other helpful queries from within their IDE. With Eclipse and Mylyn you have the possibility to access the project's trackers from within your Eclipse. This page is going to describe how to get this feature into your Eclipse and describes some basics about how to access the trackers with this infrastructure. This article is based on Eclipse Indigo (version 3.7).

Installation and Preparation

To make this feature available in your Eclipse IDE you need to install two new plugins:

• Mylyn (a task based IDE integration)
• Generic Web Templates Connector (A connector for retrieving tasks from any web based task repository that is usable via URLs)

To successfully install this combination you have to add several update sites to be able to fulfill all needed dependencies.

• Mylyn for Eclipse Indigo - [1]
• Mylyn Incubator for Mylyn 3.7 - [2]
• Mylyn Snapshots - [3]

With those three update sites enabled you can now install Mylyn and the connector.

Access Different Trackers

The first step to access the trackers is to add a task repository for each tracker based on the sourceforge template that comes with the fresh installed connector.

• Open Tasks view
• Add Queries

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

• Examples: Open Bugs, Open Patches

Working with Tasks

• Activate Task -> Work on bug, complete fixing -> mark tas as completed -> commit has a well prepared commit message prepared and the relevant files are already grouped into a dedicated change set automatically
• TODO: Is this helpful? What about the automatic commit comment feature of Mylyn?