Comments on: Bugzilla works better with Mylyn http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:29:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Using Bugzilla to track features « Victor Palau's Blog http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2513 Using Bugzilla to track features « Victor Palau's Blog Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:56:02 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2513 [...] Mylyn with Caribide.C++ and connected to the developer.symbian.org/bugtracker bugzilla sever. Lars Kurth posted a detailed discussion on how Mylyn and Tasktop can help you using  [...] [...] Mylyn with Caribide.C++ and connected to the developer.symbian.org/bugtracker bugzilla sever. Lars Kurth posted a detailed discussion on how Mylyn and Tasktop can help you using  [...]

]]> By: Lars Kurth http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2294 Lars Kurth Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:20:06 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2294 @Mik: Thanks for pointing out the best practices. I didn't realize one could switch off the Bugzilla e-mail notifications. They are indeed extremely annoying. The suggestions for the queries are also excellent: I used to have the same bug in several queries. The article showed me how to construct better queries. @Mik: Thanks for pointing out the best practices. I didn’t realize one could switch off the Bugzilla e-mail notifications. They are indeed extremely annoying. The suggestions for the queries are also excellent: I used to have the same bug in several queries. The article showed me how to construct better queries.

]]> By: Mik Kersten http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2285 Mik Kersten Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:10:50 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2285 @Tim Good to hear that were able to find out that you need a Bugzilla version more recent than 3.0.2 for the custom fields to work. When the user does a "Validate Settings" on an earlier version, we could consider adding a warning that custom fields won't work if we notice an incompatible Bugzilla version. If that would have helped you identify the problem earlier, please consider <a href="http://tasktop.com/support" rel="nofollow">filing a bug</a>. And yes, can take a bit of time to transition your work practice out of the browser. <a href="http://tasktop.com/blog/mylyn/track-tasks-with-queries-not-email" rel="nofollow">Setting up your queries according to best practices</a> makes that go quicker. Once you do that, you'll be able to turn off or filter your Bugzilla email notifications. @Nithya Yes we've had a ton of requests for Thunderbird integration, which is causing it to move up in Tasktop's product backlog. @Tim Good to hear that were able to find out that you need a Bugzilla version more recent than 3.0.2 for the custom fields to work. When the user does a “Validate Settings” on an earlier version, we could consider adding a warning that custom fields won’t work if we notice an incompatible Bugzilla version. If that would have helped you identify the problem earlier, please consider filing a bug. And yes, can take a bit of time to transition your work practice out of the browser. Setting up your queries according to best practices makes that go quicker. Once you do that, you’ll be able to turn off or filter your Bugzilla email notifications.

@Nithya Yes we’ve had a ton of requests for Thunderbird integration, which is causing it to move up in Tasktop’s product backlog.

]]> By: Tasktop Blog » Blog Archive » Community News, July 2, 2009 http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2283 Tasktop Blog » Blog Archive » Community News, July 2, 2009 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:23:20 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2283 [...] Bugzilla works better with Mylyn by Lars Kurth [...] [...] Bugzilla works better with Mylyn by Lars Kurth [...]

]]> By: Tim Kelly http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2274 Tim Kelly Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:40:56 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2274 I found (thanks to TaskTop) that if a bugzilla has customized fields it will work if it's Bugzilla version 3.0.2 or greater. Austin team should be upgrading version soon. I found it pretty cool I could just create a web-link to our bugzilla, then I could create tasks from individual bugs and it would keep the links for easy reference. I've only been using Mylyn/TaskTop for a few days, and it's hard to remember not to go back to my web browser when it's all in front of me in the IDE - it will take a while to retrain by brain. I found (thanks to TaskTop) that if a bugzilla has customized fields it will work if it’s Bugzilla version 3.0.2 or greater. Austin team should be upgrading version soon.

I found it pretty cool I could just create a web-link to our bugzilla, then I could create tasks from individual bugs and it would keep the links for easy reference.

I’ve only been using Mylyn/TaskTop for a few days, and it’s hard to remember not to go back to my web browser when it’s all in front of me in the IDE – it will take a while to retrain by brain.

]]> By: Nithya http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2270 Nithya Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:46:11 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2270 In the last few days I was doing a similar evaluation of Tasktop over bugzilla. A few other aspects also interest me * Eclipse plug in: Whatever Tasktop standalone app does can be done through an eclipse plugin. So developers can use one IDE to develop code and do other things * Context capture : Tasktop records the files you access / sites you browse during an active task and maintains it. If ever you reactivate the task again - you see all the history neatly recorded. Especially useful when you switch contexts/multitask. Lack of Thunderbird support is a big miss though ! In the last few days I was doing a similar evaluation of Tasktop over bugzilla.

A few other aspects also interest me

* Eclipse plug in: Whatever Tasktop standalone app does can be done through an eclipse plugin. So developers can use one IDE to develop code and do other things

* Context capture : Tasktop records the files you access / sites you browse during an active task and maintains it. If ever you reactivate the task again – you see all the history neatly recorded. Especially useful when you switch contexts/multitask.

Lack of Thunderbird support is a big miss though !

]]> By: Lars Kurth http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2265 Lars Kurth Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:56:26 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2265 @David: if enough people in the Symbian community are using Mylyn, Hg integration is definitely worth investigating. As it stands, Bugzilla support on its own provides clear benefits. On processes to transfer defects: the commercial version of Mylyn has a feature called "Sent to another repository" which enables copying bugs between different repositories. However I could not find it in the open source version. @Tim: Do you mean the Bugzilla the Carbide.c++ team uses internally? Maybe worth working with the Mylyn team. @David: if enough people in the Symbian community are using Mylyn, Hg integration is definitely worth investigating. As it stands, Bugzilla support on its own provides clear benefits.

On processes to transfer defects: the commercial version of Mylyn has a feature called “Sent to another repository” which enables copying bugs between different repositories. However I could not find it in the open source version.

@Tim: Do you mean the Bugzilla the Carbide.c++ team uses internally? Maybe worth working with the Mylyn team.

]]> By: Tim Kelly http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2263 Tim Kelly Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:20:52 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2263 Sounds cool, unfortunately Mylyn doesn't appear to work with customized bugzilla, like the Carbide.c++ team uses. Sounds cool, unfortunately Mylyn doesn’t appear to work with customized bugzilla, like the Carbide.c++ team uses.

]]> By: David Durant http://blog.symbian.org/2009/06/30/bugzilla-works-better-with-mylyn/#comment-2254 David Durant Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:08:22 +0000 http://blog.symbian.org/?p=1332#comment-2254 Good stuff. A couple of questions (as always) :-) 1) Is Symbian going to sponsor someone to write a good Hg interface to Mylyn so the full Foundation submission process will be supported? 2) Is there a solid process now for how defects raised on the OS in the Symbian Bugzilla system become defects in the member companies defect trackers (and vice versa)? Good stuff. A couple of questions (as always) :-)

1) Is Symbian going to sponsor someone to write a good Hg interface to Mylyn so the full Foundation submission process will be supported?

2) Is there a solid process now for how defects raised on the OS in the Symbian Bugzilla system become defects in the member companies defect trackers (and vice versa)?

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