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Intent
Presentation
Intent is a newly proposed open source project under Mylyn. Intent 0.7 is available as part of the Eclipse Juno Release Train.
Intent allows teams to easily keep documentation up-to-date with any development artifact (e.g. models, code, environment). The documentation, integrated with other Eclipse tools, then becomes truly useful and is no longer a burden that developers have to carry to please their customers or project manager.
Don't know where to start? Check out our useful links or the project summary.
Based on Donald Knuth's Literate Programming concepts and allowing collaborative work around design tasks, Intent was presented at Agile ALM connect 2012 and EclipseCon Europe 2012.
"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
Donald Knuth, Literate Programming (1984)
Intent Overview
The following pages provide an overview of the Intent project :
- Mission Statement - General presentation
- Architecture - Design choices and extensibility
- Demos - Intent demos (video clips included)
- Use Cases and Scenarios - Step-by-step use cases with screenshots
- 2012 Release Plan - See what's planned for Intent 0.7 (Juno)
- Buzz - Articles and blogs about Intent
- Intent Useful links - Useful links to understand what Intent is about
Getting Started
- User FAQ - Can't find the answer you're looking for? Just ask.
- Installation Guide - How to install Intent
- Tutorials - Tutorials to get started with Intent
Getting Involved
- Customize and Extend Intent - Make Intent fit your needs
- Further Readings - Books, articles and papers used to create Intent
The Intent Project
Currently in incubation phase, it is part of the Mylyn's Docs project.
News
- 05/11/2012 : New post : The Shape of Things to Come (Kepler roadmap)
- 26/10/2012 : Transcript of the EclipseCon Europe 2012 talk
- 28/06/2012 : Video Record of the Intent talk at Eclipse DemoCamp Juno is available (in french)
- 27/06/2012 : Intent 0.7 released with Juno Release Train
- 04/04/2012 : Transcript of the Agile ALM 2012 talk
- 02/12/2011 : Intent will be at Agile ALM Connect 2011
- 08/11/2011 : Transcript of the EclipseCon Europe 2011 talk
- 04/11/2011 : Intent will be at EclipseCon Europe 2011
- 02/09/2011 : Intent Nightly Builds in place
- 04/07/2011 : Intent is now on github
- 11/04/2011 : Intent website has been created
- 22/03/2011 : Talk at Eclipse con : Mylyn meets Intent...
- 17/03/2011 : Intent Creation Review succeeded
- New post : Mylyn Intent @ EclipseCon 2011
- 01/02/2011 : Intent proposal has been published
- 27/12/2010 : Intent will be at Eclipse Con 2011
- New post : Intent Discovery - Part 1 : the intents behind softwares