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Mylar/Mylyn Experience Report

Gail Murphy University of British Columbia

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Mylar/Mylyn Timeline

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Hipikat (Davor Cubranic) FEAT Tool/Nav Studies (Martin Robillard) Eclipse Rich Bug Editor Viz Course Project (Mik Kersten) "Field study of Mylar 0.1" Mylar Dev't (Mik Kersten+1) Mylar 0.3 @ EclipseCon Presentation of 1st Mylar paper Mylar Field Study Mylar 0.4 (public release) ~1500 dls Full-time dev added (Rob Elves) Mylar 0.5 (community contributions) Mylar 0.6 ~3000 dls Presentation of 2nd Mylar paper Mylar 1.0 ~7600 dls Mik defends Mylyn 2.0 M2: ~21000 dls -> 600000 dls

Community needs

E c lipse Mylar

T asks

Bugzilla T r ac JIRA

Conte xt T e am

CVS Java F ile s Ant SVN Pe rforc e Cle ar Case XPlanne r Code Be ame r Sc r umWor ks C++ Ruby

T asktop

De sktop We b E mail

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Mylyn Success Factors?

• Core research results in open source
• Technology Packaging

– Low overhead to try/understand – Attention to work flow – APIs

• Community

– Engage early adopters – Robust but also fast fixes – Project attitude – Champion

• Scratched an itch