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Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant
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Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant

by Sidney de Koning
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
98 pages
2h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Mylyn

Mylyn is a plug-in for Eclipse that manages your bugs, issues, and tasks, but it can also be used for online project management. How does this work? Mylyn connects to your favorite bug- or issue-tracking system and reads all these issues per project, specified with queries (which we’ll cover in more detail in Adding a Repository to Mylyn). It then generates a list for you to work on. You can even track your time working on that specific issue or bug.

Note

A bug- or issue-tracking system allows you to keep track of all of the faults, issues, missing content, or misbehavior in a piece of software, without having to write them down. With an issue or bug tracker, you have one centralized place where you can manage, prioritize, or assign bugs and issues to different people so they can work on resolving them.

The big benefit of using Mylyn is that it enables you to do all of the above directly from within Eclipse.

By default, Mylyn has connectors for Bugzilla, JIRA, Mantis, Foglyn, and Trac, so if you are using one of those systems, you are in luck. (If not, you can look through the Eclipse Marketplace to see if there is a connector for your favorite bug tracker.)

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A good option, especially if you are writing software for the community, is Mantis. It’s free and open source, and you can run it on your own server. It only requires PHP and MySQL to be installed. For installation and more information, see http://www.mantisbt.org/.

Another option is Bugzilla, which is also free and open ...

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