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Project Plan For
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=mylyn">Mylyn</a>, version 3.8</h1><div id="toc"><p><a name="toc"><strong>Table of Contents</strong></a></p><ul><li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="#release_deliverables">
Release Deliverables
</a></li><li><a href="#release_milestones">
Release Milestones
</a></li><li><a href="#target_environments">
Target Environments
</a></li><li><a href="#compatibility">
Compatibility with Previous Releases
</a></li><li><a href="#themes_and_priorities">
Themes and Priorities
</a></li></ul></div><h2><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></h2><div>
<p>
The mission of the
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn">Mylyn</a>
project is to provide:
<ol>
<li>Frameworks and APIs for Eclipse-based task and Application
Lifecycle Management (ALM)</li>
<li>Exemplary tools for task-focused programming within the Eclipse
IDE.</li>
<li>Reference implementations for open source ALM tools used by the
Eclipse community and for open ALM
standards such as OSLC</li>
</ol>
</p>
<p>
The project is structured into sub-projects, each representing an ALM category and providing common APIs for
specific ALM tools. The primary consumers of this project are ALM ISVs and other adopters of Eclipse ALM
frameworks.
</p>
<p>
Please see the
<a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Charter">project charter</a>
for more details.
</p>
</div><h2><a name="release_deliverables">Release Deliverables</a></h2><div>
<p>The Mylyn project coordinates a release of all participating sub-projects twice a year.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<b>Mylyn Builds (Incubation)</b>
<ul>
<li>Builds Framework</li>
<li>Hudson/Jenkins Connector</li>
<li>Builds SDK</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<b>Mylyn Commons</b>
<ul>
<li>Discovery Framework</li>
<li>Identity Framework</li>
<li>Interaction Monitoring Framework</li>
<li>Notification Framework</li>
<li>Repository Framework</li>
<li>Transport Framework</li>
<li>HTTP Transport</li>
<li>SOAP Transport</li>
<li>XML-RPC Transport</li>
<li>UI Toolkit</li>
<li>Commons SDK</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<b>Mylyn Context</b>
<ul>
<li>Focused UI</li>
<li>Eclipse IDE Bridge</li>
<li>Java Development Bridge</li>
<li>Plug-in Development Bridge</li>
<li>Team Support Bridge</li>
<li>C/C++ Development Bridge</li>
<li>Context SDK</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<b>Mylyn Docs</b>
<ul>
<li>WikiText</li>
<li>HtmlText</li>
<li>EPUB</li>
<li>Docs SDK</li>
<li>WikiText SDK</li>
<li>EPUB SDK</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<b>Mylyn Reviews (Incubation)</b>
<ul>
<li>Reviews Framework</li>
<li>Gerrit Connector</li>
<li>Reviews SDK</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<b>Mylyn Tasks</b>
<ul>
<li>Task List</li>
<li>Bugzilla Connector</li>
<li>Trac Connector</li>
<li>Tasks SDK</li>
<li>Tasks Tests SDK</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<b>Mylyn Versions (Incubation)</b>
<ul>
<li>Versions Framework</li>
<li>CVS Connector</li>
<li>Git Connector</li>
<li>Subclipse Connector</li>
<li>Versions SDK</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The following repositories are supported:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bugzilla 3.6.9, 4.0.6, 4.2.1</li>
<li>Trac 0.12.3</li>
<li>Hudson 2.2.1</li>
<li>Jenkins 1.447.1</li>
<li>Gerrit 2.3.0, 2.4.0</li>
</ul>
</div><p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p><h2><a name="release_milestones">Release Milestones</a></h2><div>
<p>
The plan and roadmap dates are listed in the Mylyn Calendar
(view as
<a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/kq3ed9c0latktst29lrl8nffu0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics">iCal</a>
or
<a href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn/calendar/">html</a>
) and on the
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/timeline/">Eclipse project timeline</a>
.
</p>
</div><table border="1" align="center"><tr><td><b>3.8 RC1</b></td><td>2012-05-23</td><td><div>Release Candidate (API and Feature Complete)</div></td></tr><tr><td><b>3.8 RC2</b></td><td>2012-05-30</td><td><div>Release Candidate</div></td></tr><tr><td><b>3.8 RC3</b></td><td>2012-06-06</td><td><div>Release Candidate (API Freeze)</div></td></tr><tr><td><b>3.8 RC4</b></td><td>2012-06-13</td><td><div>Release Candidate (Final Build)</div></td></tr><tr><td><b>3.8</b></td><td>2012-06-27</td><td><div>Major Release</div></td></tr></table><div>
<p>
<b>
<a name="servicereleases">Service Releases</a>
</b>
</p>
<p>
<table border="1" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<b>3.8.1</b>
</td>
<td>2012-08-03</td>
<td>
<div>Service Release (Juno SR1)</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>3.8.2</b>
</td>
<td>2012-09-28</td>
<td>
<div>Service Release (Juno SR1)</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>3.8.3</b>
</td>
<td>2013-02-22</td>
<td>
<div>Service Release (Juno SR2)</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>
<p>
<b>
<a name="rampdown">Ramp Down</a>
</b>
</p>
<p>
After RC1 is released, builds will be produced weekly until the 3.8 release. In the RC phase only bugs marked
P2 or
higher or severity major or higher will be fixed. APIs will not change except to address critical fixes
based
on
integrator feedback, until RC3, at which point APIs will be frozen.</p>
</div><p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p><h2><a name="target_environments">Target Environments</a></h2><div>
<p>Mylyn is designed to run on version 1.5 of the Java Runtime Environment, Standard Edition.</p>
<p>
Mylyn 3.8 will support the following Eclipse releases:
<ul>
<li>Eclipse 3.7</li>
<li>Eclipse 3.8</li>
<li>Eclipse 4.2</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=376210">Support for Eclipse 3.6</a>
has been discontinued.
</p>
<p>
<table summary="Test Platforms" style="width: 821px;" border="1">
<tr style="background:#cccccc">
<th colspan="6" align="center">
<big>
<strong>Test Platforms</strong>
</big>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>Operating System</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>OS Version</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Architecture</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Window System</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Java Platform</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Eclipse Release</b>
</td>
</tr>
<th colspan="6" align="center">
<big>
<strong>Manual Tests</strong>
</big>
</th>
<tr>
<td>Ubuntu Linux</td>
<td>12.04</td>
<td>x86-64</td>
<td>GTK</td>
<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition 6.0</td>
<td>Eclipse 4.2 (latest milestone)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Microsoft Windows</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>x86-64</td>
<td>Win32</td>
<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0</td>
<td>Eclipse 3.7.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple Mac OS X</td>
<td>10.7</td>
<td>x86-64</td>
<td>Cocoa</td>
<td>Apple Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 6</td>
<td>Eclipse 3.7.2</td>
</tr>
<th colspan="6" align="center">
<big>
<strong>Automated Tests</strong>
</big>
</th>
<tr>
<td>Ubuntu Linux</td>
<td>10.04</td>
<td>x86-64</td>
<td>GTK</td>
<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition 7.0</td>
<td>Eclipse 3.7, 3.8, 4.2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/mylyn-integration/">Integration tests</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div><h3>Internationalization</h3>
<div>
<p>Strings in all non-incubation plug-ins and features will be externalized and available for translation through
Eclipse Babel.</p>
</div>
<p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p><h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with Previous Releases</a></h2><div>
<p>
<strong>API Contract Compatibility:</strong>
Mylyn 3.8 will be backward compatible with Mylyn 3.0.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Binary (plug-in) Compatibility:</strong>
Mylyn 3.8 will be binary compatible with Mylyn 3.0.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Source Compatibility:</strong>
Mylyn 3.8 will not by be source compatible with previous versions.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Workspace Compatibility:</strong>
We intend to keep Mylyn 3.8 upwards workspace-compatible with all versions higher than Mylyn 2.0 unless noted.
This means that workspaces created with Mylyn 2.0 can be successfully opened by Mylyn 3.8 and upgraded to a 3.7
workspace.
</p>
</div><p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p><h2><a name="themes_and_priorities">Themes and Priorities</a></h2><div>
<p>
In addition to using the planned themes listed below, we continue prioritizing the ongoing input of our
growing user community.
</p>
</div><h3>Builds</h3><div>
<p>Integration of continuous integration and build systems and seamless access to software build and assembly
technologies. Mylyn users will be able to access continuous integration processes, control build execution
and associate build results with tasks and context.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.builds">Project plan for Mylyn Builds 1.0</a>
</p>
</div><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Builds&amp;target_milestone=1.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P1"><b>Committed</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Builds&amp;target_milestone=1.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P2&amp;priority=P3&amp;priority=P4&amp;priority=P5"><b>Proposed</b></a></p><ul><li>support Hudson 3.0 M2 [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/376681">376681</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 1.0)</strike></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Builds&amp;target_milestone=1.1&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan"><b>Deferred</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><h3>Commons</h3><div>
<p>Framework of common UI, web service, REST and test utilities to
be used by the rest of Mylyn and by other Eclipse-based tools.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.commons">Project plan for Mylyn Commons 3.8</a>
</p>
</div><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Commons&amp;target_milestone=3.8&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P1"><b>Committed</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Commons&amp;target_milestone=3.8&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P2&amp;priority=P3&amp;priority=P4&amp;priority=P5"><b>Proposed</b></a></p><ul><li>remove deprecated internal provisional classes from Commons [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/374506">374506</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 3.8)</strike></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Commons&amp;target_milestone=3.9&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan"><b>Deferred</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><h3>Context</h3><div>
<p>Usage monitoring, degree-of-interested modeling and the task-focused user extensions implementation for the
Eclipse UI, which re-aligns the user experience around tasks and provides features such as workspace
focusing and one-click multitasking.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.context">Project plan for Mylyn Context 3.8</a>
</p>
</div><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Context&amp;target_milestone=3.8&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P1"><b>Committed</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Context&amp;target_milestone=3.8&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P2&amp;priority=P3&amp;priority=P4&amp;priority=P5"><b>Proposed</b></a></p><ul><li>[e4] support editor restore on task activation [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/373098">373098</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 3.8)</strike></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Context&amp;target_milestone=3.9&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan"><b>Deferred</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><h3>Docs</h3><div>
<p>Eclipse-based access to documentation systems such as Wikis and other portals.
This builds on the Mylyn WikiText framework.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.docs">Project plan for Mylyn Docs 1.7</a>
</p>
</div><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Docs&amp;target_milestone=1.7.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P1"><b>Committed</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Docs&amp;target_milestone=1.7.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P2&amp;priority=P3&amp;priority=P4&amp;priority=P5"><b>Proposed</b></a></p><ul><li>Move EPUB support into weekly/release builds [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/380104">380104</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 1.7.0)</strike></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Docs&amp;target_milestone=1.8.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan"><b>Deferred</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><h3>Reviews</h3><div>
<p>Eclipse-based code review functionality that's seamlessly integrated with the Tasks and SCM systems
supported by Mylyn. Eclipse integration for Agile code reviews, the formal IEEE code review process, review
reports with BIRT and aim to support many Eclipse artifact for reviews, e.g. JDT (Java files), CDT (C/C++
files), EMF (models).</p>
<p>
<a href="http://eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.reviews">Project plan for Mylyn Reviews 1.0</a>
</p>
</div><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Reviews&amp;target_milestone=1.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P1"><b>Committed</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Reviews&amp;target_milestone=1.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P2&amp;priority=P3&amp;priority=P4&amp;priority=P5"><b>Proposed</b></a></p><ul><li>support Gerrit 2.3 [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/375672">375672</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 1.0)</strike></li><li>support Gerrit 2.4 [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/379963">379963</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 1.0)</strike></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Reviews&amp;target_milestone=1.1&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan"><b>Deferred</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><h3>Tasks</h3><div>
<p>Integration with Agile, issue, bug and defect tracking servers. Mylyn Tasks provides rich task editing,
task list management and offline synchronization for ALM servers. Central portion of the ALM integration
framework used by other projects, eg, task-based changed tracking for the SCM project.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.tasks">Project plan for Mylyn Tasks 3.8</a>
</p>
</div><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Tasks&amp;target_milestone=3.8&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P1"><b>Committed</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Tasks&amp;target_milestone=3.8&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P2&amp;priority=P3&amp;priority=P4&amp;priority=P5"><b>Proposed</b></a></p><ul><li>[api] move classes in org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.provisional.tasks.core to API package [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/375076">375076</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 3.8)</strike></li><li>[e4] improve Mylyn 3.8 compatibility with Eclipse 4.2 [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/376368">376368</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 3.8)</strike></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Tasks&amp;target_milestone=3.9&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan"><b>Deferred</b></a></p><ul><li>[api] provide an extensible store for task-related information [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/358554">358554</a>] (target milestone: 3.9)</li><li>remove deprecated internal provisional classes from Tasks [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/376337">376337</a>] (target milestone: 3.9)</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Versions</h3><div>
<p>Eclipse integration for source code and configuration management tools(SCM, SCCM) and bi-directional
linking to change management tools. Mylyn Versions and the API it provides builds on the existing Eclipse
Team APIs.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=mylyn.versions">Project plan for Mylyn Versions 1.0</a>
</p>
</div><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Versions&amp;target_milestone=1.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P1"><b>Committed</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Versions&amp;target_milestone=1.0&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan&amp;priority=P2&amp;priority=P3&amp;priority=P4&amp;priority=P5"><b>Proposed</b></a></p><ul><li>R4E Array index out of bound exceptions [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/367213">367213</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 1.0)</strike></li><li>Unable to find Review items from imported maven projects [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/381036">381036</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 1.0)</strike></li><li>[subclipse] Adding a resource review item using SVN displays version 5 [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/359469">359469</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 1.0)</strike></li><li>[Subclipse] Include connector in next mylyn release [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/375372">375372</a>] <strike>(target milestone: 1.0)</strike></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=Mylyn%20Versions&amp;target_milestone=1.1&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=plan"><b>Deferred</b></a></p><ul><li><div>No items.</div></li></ul></li></ul><h3>Eclipse 4.2</h3><div>
<p>
Mylyn 3.8 will support installation into Eclipse 4.2 and be functional with limitations. Progress is
tracked on
<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=321278">bug 321278</a>
.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;short_desc=%5Be4%5D;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr;product=Mylyn;product=Mylyn%20Builds;product=Mylyn%20Commons;product=Mylyn%20Context;product=Mylyn%20Docs;product=Mylyn%20Incubator;product=Mylyn%20Reviews;product=Mylyn%20Tasks;product=Mylyn%20Versions">Known limitations on Eclipse 4.2</a>
</li>
</ul>
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