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We’ve seen a steady stream of requests for Perforce integration and we’re pleased to join Perforce in announcing P4Mylyn, a Tasktop Certified Mylyn connector for the award-winning Perforce Fast Software Configuration Management System.

P4Mylyn is both a full-featured SCM connector and a task repository connector for “Jobs”, Perforce’s built-in defect tracking system. With the connector, Perforce teams can now take advantage of Mylyn’s SCM capabilities such as organizing commits by task, auto-generating comments, and navigating from code to the relevant task. Furthermore, thanks to the connector, Perforce can now be seamlessly integrated with the growing ecosystem of more than 45 compatible defect trackers and project management systems.

Perforce Jobs in the task list and modified files grouped by task

in the Synchronize view

Key Features

		Automatically track the context of Perforce-managed assets related to each task. This makes it easy to commit to Perforce (or revert) only the relevant changes when working on multiple tasks.
		Generate commit comments with links to the active task, creating seamless code-to-task navigation and traceability.
		Integrate Perforce with defect tracking and project management tools that have Mylyn connectors, such as Atlassian JIRA, Bugzilla, CollabNet TeamForge and ScrumWorks, IBM Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase, Rally, ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle and VersionOne.
		Access ‘Jobs’, Perforce’s built-in defect tracking system, using Mylyn’s task-focused interface. This gives developers complete visibility into the tasks their team members are working on and automatically links their own pending work to the Perforce job being fixed.
		Display only the changes relevant to a given task when using graphical differencing tools.

Perforce participation in the Mylyn project

Perforce has actively engaged with the Mylyn project and taken a key role in driving innovation in the Mylyn SCM APIs. This is great news for the entire Mylyn and Tasktop community as developers using any of the various Mylyn SCM connectors will benefit from the API upgrades, which make the SCM experience better integrated and more robust for everyone.

Get the P4Mylyn connector

P4Mylyn is included in the Perforce Plug-in for Eclipse. View installation instructions or install from within Eclipse using the Mylyn Connector Discovery via New Task > Install More Connectors…

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Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn project, will be presenting at JAX 2010 in Mainz, Germany this week. Mik’s talks will cover new features in the latest Mylyn release and discuss the impact of Twitter and other forms of social collaboration on software development. Steffen Pingel, Senior Software Developer at Tasktop and Mylyn Committer, will deliver a talk on his experiences with bringing a Firefox-style install experience to the Eclipse platform. Here is the complete list of Tasktop and Mylyn related sessions.

		From Tasks to Tweets: Social Collaboration for Software Developers Mik Kersten, Wednesday, 4:15pm Developers are increasingly relying on social technologies to get work done. Some worry that constant real-time communication will bring productivity to a halt. But new technologies and practices are forming in order to help organizations harness social collaboration as part of an Agile process and integrated tool set. This talk will demonstrate how we can use the latest social tools alongside established ALM technologies to promote productivity instead of procrastination.
		Mylyn 3.4: from Stack Trace to Scrum Mik Kersten, Wednesday, 10:15am The rapid adoption of Mylyn has made next big evolution of the IDE clear. Stories and tasks are more central than sourcecode, focus is more important than features, and integration with the Agile workflow is the biggest productivity boost since code completion. This talk will review how new features in the latest Mylyn release and new integrations can make the entire Agile team more productive.
		Bringing easy Extension Install to your RCP Applications Steffen Pingel, Tuesday, 4:45pm Eclipse P2 is a powerful tool for managing plug-ins but lacks a UI that matches the ease of use of the Firefox extension installer which has helped to perpetuate the browsers success. To bring the Firefox install experience to RCP applications and Eclipse-based tools the Mylyn project has developed a reusable component on top of P2 that provides a simplified installer.

If you’d like to meet with a member of the Tasktop team at JAX 2010, contact us and we’ll arrange a convenient time.