Eclipse Mylyn

The Eclipse Mylyn plugin provides task-centric display/artifact management. Mylyn tracks what files were touched for a given task and as you switch/activate tasks Eclipse only shows the artifacts for that tasks. There are also lots of task management features.

Besides local task management there are a variety of Mylyn connectors that allow tasks to be stored in task tracking tools such as Jira, Trac or GitHub Issues. GitHub Issues is a nice task tracking framework associated with a GitHub project.

Tracking GitHub Issues from Eclipse Mylyn

• From Eclipse: Help - Install New Software
• Select Luna Update site: Luna - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/luna
• Filter: GitHub
• Select Eclipse GitHub integration

Create GitHub Task Repository

• Window - Show View - Other - Mylyn - Task Repositories
• Right click Tasks folder - Add Task Repository
• Select GitHub Issues
• Server: http://github.com/medale/spark-mail
• Add GitHub user id/password
• Validate Settings

This creates a new Bugs - medale/spark-mail issues task repo

Working on tasks

• Window - Show View - Other - Mylyn - Task List

This shows issues that were already created on GitHub and allows you to work with those or create new issues remotely.