Project Plan For Mylyn, version 3.1

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Release Deliverables
• Release Milestones
• Target Environments
• Compatibility with Previous Releases
• Themes and Priorities

The first goal of Mylyn is to make task and context management seamlessly integrated with the Eclipse Platform by providing rich and extensible frameworks for task repository connectors, structure bridges and team support. The second goal is to provide a reference implementation of the Task-Focused UI for the Eclipse SDK. This includes structure bridges for the artifacts supported by the SDK which include Java, PDE, Ant and generic files. It also includes the Bugzilla Connector as the reference task repository implementation, and CVS integration as the reference team support. Additional features can be considered based on the availability community contributions and resources.

• Tasks Framework
• Task-focused Interface
  • Focused UI
  • Eclipse IDE Bridge
  • Java Development Bridge
  • Plug-in Development Bridge
  • Team Support Bridge
• Bugzilla Connector
• JIRA Connector
• Trac Connector
• XPlanner Connector
• WikiText
• SDK Features
  • Mylyn SDK
  • Mylyn Extras SDK

The plan and roadmap dates are listed in the Mylyn Calendar (view as iCal or html) and on the Eclipse project timeline.

Mylyn is designed to run on version 1.5.0 of the Java Runtime Environment, Standard Edition.

Mylyn will support the following Eclipse releases:

• Eclipse 3.5 (latest milestone)
• Eclipse 3.4
• Eclipse 3.3

API Contract Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1 will be backward compatible with Mylyn 3.0.

Binary (plug-in) Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1 will be binary compatible with Mylyn 3.0.

Source Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1 will not by be source compatible with previous versions.

Workspace Compatibility: We intend to keep Mylyn 3.1 upwards workspace-compatible with all versions higher than Mylyn 2.0 unless noted. This means that workspaces created with Mylyn 2.0 can be successfully opened by Mylyn 3.1 and upgraded to a 3.1 workspace.

In addition to using the planned themes listed below, we need to continue prioritizing the ongoing input of our growing user community. Committers should prioritize bugs in the following order. This order need not be used if a bug contains a community contribution of a patch, in which case the quality of the patch determines the priority.

• Framework APIs: Tasks, Context, Team, Monitor, Standalone and Headless Use
• UI: Task List, Task Editor, Task-focused Interface
• Connectors: Bugzilla (reference implementation), JIRA (community supported), Trac (committer supported), XPlanner (committer supported)
• WikiText

All bug scheduled for Mylyn 3.1

• Committed
  • [api] remove deprecated classes [237552] (target milestone: 3.1)

• Proposed
  • [api] extension for repository properties wizard page [244653] (target milestone: 3.1)
  • [api] update layout of repository settings page [242445] (target milestone: 3.1)
  • [api] provide common utility classes for form based editors [243828] (target milestone: 3.1)
  • [api] move task editor extension out of the sandbox [244579] (target milestone: 3.1)

• Deferred
  • [api] provide a mapping between task attributes and attribute editors [248369] (target milestone: 3.2)
  • [api] [externalization] make externalization framework extensible [248367] (target milestone: 3.2)

User Interface