Comments on: Mylar is reborn. Long live Mylyn!

By: Pradeepa

Pradeepa — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:36:02 +0000

Mik, I am closely watching Eclipse Mylar website and releases. It’s a great work by you and your team. The features are quite promising.

By: Mik

Mik — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:50:23 +0000

Thanks for the support Werner and Ashkan. The transition has been a lot of work for us but has gone smoothly considering the extent of the changes that we had to make. The best part is that we will not be requireing people to uninstall the old plug-ins, instead they will disable themselves when you first install Mylyn.

A very good thing that’s come out of this is that we used the change of the plug-in namespace to restructure all of our plug-ins and features to be more modular and more configurable. This means that you can now do things like install Mylyn into Eclipse configuration that do not include the JDT or PDE. This happened just in time, since the EPP project is including Mylyn in 3 out of 4 of the default downloads!

By: Ashkan

Ashkan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:33:23 +0000

Congratulations man! That is very good name and I can see deep insight in choosing it
Hope you keep the good job under new name.
–long live Mylyn!

By: Werner Keil

Werner Keil — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:48:28 +0000

Interesting. Well, I pointed out the fact of the Branded product’s existence in my German Myl(ar)yn article late last year.

Also that the company developed those foils around the time Nuclear Tests started to become widely used, and that it’s most likely, Mylar(R) has not only been used to watch the Sun since then…;-)

Preventing bogus threats like SCO similar more recent acts of highwaymanship, like Microsoft’s claims against the Open Source community, I fully understand this move and agree it’s better now than later.

Also Mylyn is adopted by companies which are also known for changing their brands and names a lot, such as Borland/Inprise/CodeGear

Compared to their product policy, I think this change is quite a smooth and easy one.

By: Mik

Mik — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:36:46 +0000

Michael: That’s very good to hear. Yes, trademark issues are considerably less fun to deal with than the technical issues! So it took me a while to get to the point that you’re at. But now that we are nearly done with the rename I couldn’t agree more about the benefits that uniqueness will bring in the long run. Having a 5 letter name that is memorable, meaningful, sounds good, and that we have both the trandemark and .com and .org domain names for is going to be very valuable and make the project very easy to find and identify.

Lynn: you could also consider GayowskiLar.

By: Michael Scharf

Michael Scharf — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:52:29 +0000

Mylyn indeed accelerates my thoughts

Those Patent/Trademark issues sometimes quite annoying. But Mylar->Mylyn seems like a small step with the additional benefit of being pretty unique… Uniqueness is quite important in this world. eclipse, europa, jazz are very ambiguous.

Michael
P.S.: another new word for my spelling checker(s): Mylyn

By: Lynn Gayowski

Lynn Gayowski — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:33:37 +0000

My new favourite project name. Now if I can just convince someone to create a MyGayowski project.