Mylyn Project Restructuring Proposal

This document describes a proposed restructuring of the Eclipse Mylyn project. We solicit additional participation and input from the Eclipse community. Please send all feedback and requests for participation, by April 5th, to the mylyn-dev mailing list or indicate interest in participation by submitting a Bugzilla report.

Background

Since its 1.0 release in December of 2006, Mylyn has grown to become the task and application lifecycle management (ALM) integration framework for Eclipse.  Mylyn provides:

  • A task management tool for developers
     
  • A broad ecosystem of Agile and ALM integrations
     
  • The revolutionary task-focused interface

Due to the growing adoption of Mylyn’s frameworks, we are planning to restructure the project around its API boundaries for key components such as Tasks and Context.  The goal of the proposed sub-projects is to address the growth of Mylyn by creating sub-projects for the components, and to solicit additional participation from ISVs and other stakeholders in the new sub-projects.

Overview

We expect the following structure and participation to evolve while the restructuring is in the proposal phase.  "Reference Tools" are open source ALM tools used for reference implementations of the corresponding Mylyn sub-project APIs.  The "Reference Standard" implementation is for the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) REST APIs for ALM.

Project

Summary

Reference Tools

Reference Standards

Tasks

Change, issue, defect and user story management

Bugzilla, Trac

OSLC-CM

Context

Context management and task focus

JDT, CDT

 

SCM

Source code and configuration management

CVS, EGit

OSLC-SCM

Build

Build, release and continuous integration

Hudson

OSLC-Automation

Review

Collaborative code review

n/a

 

Docs

Documentation and requirements

WikiText

 

Commons

Rich client, REST and WS utilities

n/a

 

Compatibility

Binary compatibility with existing Mylyn 3.x releases will be retained under the restructuring.

Projects

Mylyn

Mylyn project and committers remain unchanged (see Mylyn Contributors), with Mik Kersten as the project lead. This project will no longer contain source code, all of which will move into sub-projects.  The proposed sub-projects and their committers are listed below.  Committers not currently on the Eclipse Mylyn project are described.  The sub-projects will actively support interested parties earning commit rights.

Mylyn/Tasks

The scope of this project is integration with Agile, issue, bug and defect tracking servers.  The project provides rich task editing, task list management and offline synchronization for ALM servers.  The Tasks project is the central portion of the ALM integration framework used by Mylyn.  Individuals listed as "New Contributors" have stated their intersted in contributing to the project.

Existing Committers

New Contributors

Mylyn/Context

The scope of this project is the implementation of usage monitoring, degree-of-interested modeling and the task-focused interface implementation for Eclipse, which re-aligns the IDE user interface around tasks and provides features such as workspace focusing and one-click multitasking.

Existing Committers

Mylyn/SCM

The scope of this project is Eclipse integration for source code and configuration management tools and bi-directional linking to change management tools. This project and APIs it provides builds on the existing Eclipse "Team" APIs.

Existing Committers

New Contributors

Mylyn/Build

The scope of this project is Eclipse integration of continuous integration and build systems.  This is a new project that includes existing Eclipse.org committers who will collaborate on extending Mylyn’s build system APIs.

Existing Committers

New Contributors

Mylyn/Review (Incubation)

The scope of this project is to provide Eclipse-based code review functionality that’s seamlessly integrated with the Tasks and SCM systems supported by Mylyn.

Committers

Mylyn/Docs

The scope of this project is Eclipse-based access to documentation systems such as Wikis and other portals.  This builds on the Mylyn WikiText framework.

Committers

Mylyn/Commons

The scope of this project is to provide a framework of common UI, web service, REST and test utilities to be used by the rest of Mylyn and by other Eclipse-based tools.

Committers

Mylyn/Incubator (Incubation)

The scope of this project is to provide an place for experimentation.  This will subsume the existing Mylyn Sandbox.  All committers granted commit rights.

Interested Parties