Revision as of 23:46, 25 January 2007

This is an early draft and not yet ready for comment.

Milestones

Mylar milestones are released 1 week after Eclipse milestones.

• 2.0M1: February 16, 2007
• 2.0M2: March 30, 2007
• 2.0M3: May 11, 2007
• 2.0RC1: June 15, 2007
• 2.0: June 29, 2007

Platforms

• Eclipse 3.3: Mylar 2.0 and future Mylar releases
• Eclipse 3.2: Mylar 2.0 will be the the end-of-life for 3.2 branch
• Requires Java 5 and later

Priorities

Committers will prioritize bugs without external contributions (i.e. patches) in the following order:

1. API & Tasks framework
2. Task List and Task editor UI
3. Task-Focused UI
4. Context framework
5. Connector improvements

Themes

Tasks

• Increase Task Editor information density. The task editor is a very frequent target of interaction, and we need to continue streamlining it. When opened it should show the user the most relevant information with minimal clicking and scrolling required. (158921).
• Support working sets. A Task List that includes projects from multiple "working spheres" (e.g. Project A, Project B, Personal) can become unwieldy and distracting. Integration of top-level working sets could address this.
• Support date view in Task List. A common way of organizing tasks to work on in the current week is by day. We should support this by integrating the Task Activity view's date range container presentation with the Task List. (147084)
• Support integration with planning/calendaring tools. Many task repositories have facilities for task planning in the form of milestones, due dates, and other organizations of tasks. The Task List and Task Editor should support such extensions, for example, allowing the Task List to be organized by milestone. (Calendaring, privacy controls) (e.g. 152490).
• Support task dependencies. Many tasks are related to other tasks, whether it's because they should be worked on in sequence or are subtasks. We should make these dependencies explicit in the Task List and Task Editor. (137543)
• Streamline task creation. Make it easier to create tasks, fork them, or promote local tasks to repository tasks. (154896, 152211)
• Improve task activity timing. We currently have a task activity mechanism, but it is not explicit enough, and does not capture time spent outside of the workbench. It should also be extensible to OS-specific monitoring. (135668).
• Provide workflow mechanism. There are many common workflows, such as commit/complete/deactivate. We should provide a mechanism for specifying and executing task-related workflows. This requires direct editing of task data (i.e., without editor submission). (160780, 124224)
• (hyperlinking)

Repositories

• Make offline cache faster and more robust. The offline cache is currently one large serialized file. We should make it more robust so that changes to connectors and the framework do not cause the offline data to be cleared. This should make it possible to put a repository into offline mode permanently, and never lose the task data. (165809)
• Improve connectivity problem and performance handling. Lack of or degraded connectivity should be transparent, and jobs should be cancellable. (165833)
• Improve consistency between local and repository tasks. Need to consider how to promote task between local and repository, and whether local tasks should be a kind of repository. (12431)
• Provide standard XML for for tasks. We should create a canonical and extensible XML for for tasks that we use for storage. Connector providers returning this form would not need custom attribute mappings.
• Improve synchronization control. (offline mode for repositories bug 165809, finer-grained control bug 165473)
• (models show in task repositories view)

Context

• Preserve element identity through refactoring. Currently only the active context participates in refactoring. We either need to maintain a dependency map to update the element handles of inactive contexts, or migrate them when they are activated, via the refactoring history. (164243)

Infrastructure

• Generalize task and context storage mechanisms.'

TO FILE

Europa-related

• 163537: Use Eclipse Activities (Capabilities) to switch Mylar on/off
• 167362: move httpclient dependency to Orbit
• build process
• 167050: Optimize Mylar update sites
• 166733: Mylar update site should link to companion update sites

UI Finessing

• 143577: alt-click to expose filtered queries/categories in tasklist
• 163450: Tab title decoration for Task List view
• 166990: [multi monitor] if Eclipse is on secondary monitor to left of primary task list tooltips show on primary
• 166644: Activating task should restore multiple editor configuration
• 150682: Context attachment needs progress indication with cancellation or to run in background
• 159318: [ui] retrieve context action is not available in the attachments popup menu
• 166621: Include a "Add Attachment" action on task context menu
• 158405: Add sort indicators to the Task List table view

Misc:

• 166399: allow contributions to the UI legend
• 162610: automatically toggle folding of Javadoc comments
• 161877: make searching for duplicates more encouraged and more flexible
• 166835: jira queries fails to import when disconnected