Archive for September, 2009

Community News, September 18, 2009

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Blogs
 
Mylyn-Mantis Connector 3.0.5 released by Robert Munteanu
See what’s new in the latest release of the Mylyn connector for Mantis. Also see features and fixes for the 3.0.4 version.
 
Connecting Mylyn to a MySQL Database by Maarten Meijer
Maarten has published a series of blog posts about the Industrial Connector, which enables Mylyn to access data in any MySQL database. Maarten’s blog series describes how to create simple and advanced queries with the Industrial connector and even shows how to connect Mylyn to Eventum. See the whole blog for more articles and updates.
 
SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0 Now Available by Christian Dupuis
Check out the latest features in the SpringSource Tool Suite, which is free. The SpringSource Tool Suite includes Mylyn and leverages Task-focused technology in several interesting ways including task-focused tutorials, which show only the code relevant for each tutorial step. The tutorials cover Spring framework development topics such as working with Web Flow and Dynamic Modules.
 
Integration Plan (part 1) by Victor Palau
Victor has previously written about using Bugzilla to track features with Mylyn and this related post shows how the Symbian Foundation is using Mylyn to for software development planning.
 
ScrumWorks Pro + Tasktop = Productivity Agile Development Blog
This post provides a summary and review of the Tasktop integration for ScrumWorks Pro and includes a link to the video showing it in action.
 
 
Articles
 
ScrumWorks Pro 4 orchestrates large-scale agile efforts
by David Rubinstein, SD Times
ScrumWorks Pro 4 has been released with new support for Scrum in large enterprises. The Tasktop Connector for ScrumWorks now fully supports ScrumWorks 4.
 
IBM Sharpens Rational Tools – The new standard is a bid to make IBM’s Rational change management tools more interoperable with other vendors
By Charles Babcock, InformationWeek
This article covers the latest news about the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) initiative to define interoperability standards for change management tools. Tasktop is a member of the initiative and uses OSLC API standards in the ClearQuest Mylyn Connector.
 
IBM hails ALM standards participation by Paul Krill, InfoWorld
More on the OSLC initiative including an analysis of key players that have yet to sign on.
 
IBM supports Open CM initiative in tools by David Rubinstein, SD Times
See this article on OSLC for a more detailed perspective on how the initiative will help developers and ease development of Eclipse Mylyn connectors.
 
 
News Releases
 
ThoughtWorks Studios and Tasktop partner to improve Agile ALM success
with Eclipse Mylyn integration for adaptive ALM
 
Tasktop Pro version of Eclipse Mylyn now fully integrated
with latest release of ScrumWorks Pro
 
IBM, OSLC Promote Interoperability Across the Software Lifecycle
 

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Bugzilla 3.4.1 Causing False Incomings

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

The recent upgrade of Eclipse.org’s Bugzilla to 3.4.1 has revealed a bug that can cause hundreds of false incomings in the Task List. Those users who are using Bugzilla 3.4.1 and have 1000+ tasks from that repository in their task list are likely affected by this bug.   A fix for this is now available in the most recent Mylyn weekly build. Update sites for weekly builds are available on the downloads page (under 3.3 Weekly Builds):

 http://eclipse.org/mylyn/downloads/#weekly

If you have already been affected by this bug and see hundreds of false incomings in your Task List, after installing the latest Mylyn weekly build you will want to restore your last known good task list using the Task List view menu’s “Restore Tasks from History…” wizard.

Tasktop Pro users, an Early Access build that includes the fix will be available before noon pacific time (Sept 1).  Once available the build will be announced on the EA announcement task.

If you are experiencing any problems submitting changes to existing tasks, try updating your repository configuration and then try submitting again. To force an update of the repository configuration, open the Task Repositories view (Window > Show View > Other > Tasks > Task Repositories), right+click on the repository in question and in the resulting popup choose “Update Repository Configuration”.

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