Mylyn Demonstration

Please note that the demo script has not yet been updated for Mylyn 2.0.

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Demo 1: Tasks

Problem

• tell that work is now all chaos
• there is no integration with ide workflow

• Tasks lists
  • what are they

• Repository connectors
  • Mylar can link to all repositories
  • Mylar does not have its own store

Story

• Open Workspace
• Show Repositories
• Task List
  • Create a Bugzilla Query
  • Show how the tasklists is organised
  • Show how you can quickly recognize tasks
  • Difference between open and closed task
• Open a Bug
• Make a change to a task and show
  • it has outgoing changes
  • it is a-synchronous
• Open a task not in any of your lists by using navigate/open repository task
• show linking from a stack trace to a java source
• show linking from a java source back to a bug
• show linking from a bug to a bug
• Make a search
  • Point out the difference between an search and a query
• Show shortcut CTRL-H from task to show openening of corre
• Show personal planning and
  • tell why you would use this personal stuff
  • show how you can you pick out the tasks that have personal notes (have stripes on the board)
• Show tasklist filter menu
  • Show priority filtering (don't do it)
  • Click filter completed tasks

Demo 2: Task Focussed UI

• What is information overload
  • How does this relate to the eclipse workspace
  • How are programmers working usually (multi-tasking)
  • Scrolling, searching, tagging, filtering is not programming

• Task Context
  • Mylar monitors all your activity
  • Creates a degree of interest model
    • highly used items are marked more important
    • Unused items decay and are moved out ouf your context
  • What you touch is in your context
  • It is managed for you as you work

• Task-focused UI
  • You only see what you need in the context of your task
  • View filtering, Element decoration
  • Automatic folding, contents assist ranking
    • Indicate what contest assist is
    • Consistently integrated all through Eclipse
  • Editor an perspective management
    • Opens and closed editors when tasks are switched
    • Automatically closes editors when they are decayed
    • Opens the perspective you wherein last (when activated in preferences)
  • One click task switching
    • Opens editors and perspecitves
    • Re-arranges all views

Story: Use bugzilla bug 179144

• there should a project
• A important bug comes in:
• You have to work on it, right click and open the bug
• Activate the bug
• package explorer: toggle focus ui
• (link with editor button should be on)
• open some class
• hold control and navigate around
  • Now press the focus button
  • press content assist and show that the interesting methods show first
  • Press the editor Fold uninteresting methods
• tell that the task context is saved with the task
• deactivate the task and show eclipse returns to normal
• re-activate the task to go back where you left off(ONE CLICK)
• tell that the focus is applied to other views like the problem view
• show how ALT CLICK works
• open a new source from the class
• tell about the degree of intereset
• show how stuff can be removed from the task list mark as less interesting

Demo 3: Collaboration

Problem

• Tell what the problem of change sets are
• Tell why you don;t want to collaborate via e-mail
  • overload, interruption, no sharing

• What is Change Set Managamement
  • Changes are autmatically grouped by task
  • commit messages are automatic
    • are used to linked to tasks
    • add below the commit message
  • everything is linked

• Why is Task context sharing such a good thing
  • Expertise is focused on one task
  • Context can be shared

Story

• Find a problem by entering stat into the Find
• Open the task to check it out (look for context Icon)
• Find the context within the Attachements
• Activate the task context by clicking on the attachement
• The task context is now active in the workspace
• Jump into the Task tab context (bottom) to show the context
• Switch back to another task to show how easy it is to go back to a previous task