RE: [mylyn-integrators] Multi bugtrackers project

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I understand the situation, but have no advice at this point:

Suppose you have two arbitrary defect tracking systems, say Bugzilla and
ClearQuest. The objective is to create a task in both repositories at the
same time. So Bugzilla may have id = 408 and ClearQuest may have id = "ABC".
Somewhere there would have to be a relationship between 408 and ABC that
Carole would have to maintain. If I understand the question, it comes down
to either whether a task can be associated with multiple repositories, or
whether two tasks can share the information. One difficulty I see with the
later is that only one active context is permitted.

Does that summarize?

-----Original Message-----
From: mylyn-integrators-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mylyn-integrators-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Bryan
(tombry)
Sent: January-24-09 3:22 PM
To: Mylyn Integrators list
Subject: RE: [mylyn-integrators] Multi bugtrackers project

I'm not sure whether I understand your question.  You may need to give a
more concrete example.  Or perhaps you are just confused about how Mylyn
works.  

Mylyn provides Eclipse with the concept of tasks that exist as top-level
entities in the workspace.  Tasks are not part of any project.  The
Mylyn Task List provides a project-independent container for the tasks.

Tasks must exist outside of projects because one task's context may
refer to files from more than one project.  Many applications,
especially Eclipse plug-in features, consist of several separate Eclipse
projects.  To complete one task, the developer may need to modify code
in multiple projects.  It wouldn't really work if tasks were contained
in an Eclipse project.

You can even have tasks with no projects.  That is, you can have a
workspace with zero projects that has a Task List with tasks from 3
different repositories.  

---Tom

Carole RIFFAULT wrote on Saturday, January 24, 2009 12:10 PM:

> Hello Rob,
> 
> Thank you for your answer. Actually, my question was not really well
> asked. I am giving a try at explaining it.
> I know that you can connect Mylyn to different repositories but I was
> wondering if Mylyn allows a user to create tasks in several distant
> bugtrackers simultaneously and then to manage them in the same list
> (peculiar to the project for instance).
> 
> Thank in advance for the help,
> 
> Carole

-- 
Tom Bryan <tombry@xxxxxxxxx>
Cisco Systems
RTP, NC, USA
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