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While Mylyn will happily display other languages and character sets coming from the task repository, the Mylyn UI has never been internationalized. The Eclipse Babel project has provided a great service by enabiling the community to contribute translations. But to support Babel, a project needs to update its codebase to support internationalization.

In a tireless effort, Hiroyuki Inaba contributed patches that externalize strings in the Mylyn code base. Despite a changing code base and the necessary IP review process, Hiroyuki kept the patches current and we were able to apply them to cvs last week. A new build is now available from the weekly update site.

The changes introduced by the patches were quite significant and a few strings may have been lost or misplaced in the process. If you encounter any missing or garbled strings in the latest weekly build, please comment on bug 258358.

Starting now, everyone who has a Bugzilla account can help translate Mylyn through Eclipse Babel. Follow the Help Translate Eclipse link, select a language and choose tools.mylyn as the project to make Mylyn speak your native tongue in time for the upcoming Galileo release.

Every week we come across a growing number of thoughtful articles and blog posts about the task-focused interface technology behind Mylyn, Tasktop and other task-focused tools. These posts include events, how-to’s, experience reports, and reviews of task-focused software. Starting today, we will post a weekly summary of interesting task-focused content.

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Since this is the first community news post, here are some of the best news items from the past several weeks:

The love of camping, for many, is rooted in the experiences we had as kids being dropped off in the great outdoors for a week of fun, food, and friendship. We’d learn how to create shelter from branches and fire without matches; survival skills we’d hopefully never have to rely on. All too soon the week was over and it was time to say goodbye to all the new friends. Good times.

Fast forward to November 25th, 2008, the 2nd Vancouver Eclipse Demo Camp. We had a bunch of similarly eager faces gathered around the warm glow of a projector waiting to see the latest in Eclipse-based Technology. It only lasted one evening but we all learned about cool stuff and met a bunch of great people over beers (no Marshmallows at this camp). I kicked things off with an overview of the Eclipse Ecosystem and its amazing growth to date, then we jumped right into demos.

David Green introduced us to WikiText, the slick new wiki syntax and rendering engine slated for Mylyn 3.1. Blog, Slides:

Jingwen Owen Ou then gave an excellent overview of his Google Summer of Code experience developing numerous features for Mylyn 3.1 including intelligent comment folding, find support in the task editor, and WikiText Mylyn integration. Slides:

Kaitlin Duck Sherwood demonstrated Tripoli which leverages code coverage tooling to quickly locate where behavior is implemented.

Guillaume Pothier of Pleiad Lab, University of Chile presented TOD, an amazing debugging tool that can travel back in time to when and where a variable was set! Slides:

Mandeep Jassal of BusinessObject/SAP Vancouver demonstrated Crystal Reports for Eclipse which enables report construction and execution all from within Eclipse. An Eclipse RCP based Crystal Reports viewer was also demonstrated. Slides:

Andrew Eisenberg of SpringSource gave us a glimpse of the work he has done to make JDT more extensible though application of load time weaving (using AJDT). Slides:

Mik Kersten of Tasktop Technologies discussed the Task-Focused Interface and how Tasktop is able to use the modularity of Eclipse to address different market segments. Slides:

Thanks to all who participated this year and to each of the presenters. To be notified of other Mylyn, Tasktop related news, consider signing up for the Tasktop newsletter.

I hope to see you all again at the next Vancouver Eclipse DemoCamp!