Mylyn-Mantis Repository Connector

Version 3.2.0 is a major feature release, comprising of performance enhancements, complete support for localised MantisBT repositories and better support for repository-configured settings. Performance enhancements Refreshing the repository ... [More] configuration is usually slow due to large number of configuration settings that are retrieved. A first step towards making this faster is to implement refreshing the configuration […] [Less]

Version 3.2.0 is a major feature release, comprising of performance enhancements, complete support for localised MantisBT repositories and better support for repository-configured settings. Performance enhancements Refreshing the repository ... [More] configuration is usually slow due to large number of configuration settings that are retrieved. A first step towards making this faster is to implement refreshing the configuration [...] [Less]

Time has come for another release of the Mylyn connector for MantisBT. I find that these released don’t arrive so often since the connector is solid and has the features that I for one need for day-to-day usage. Nevertheless, I found the time to remove some issues which have annoyed both me and the users [...]

This release of the connector brings around minor improvements and bugfixes. One notably troublesome problem was not being able to run under IBM RAD 7.5.5, which was solved by re-organizing the Import-Package and Require-Bundle statements to please ... [More] the 3.4 platform. Yet another bug which affected non-English based MantisBT installations was fixed, and installation from the [...] [Less]

A few bugs sneaked in the 3.1.1 release – which should’ve been named 3.2.0 due to its new features -  so 3.1.2  a small bugfix and stability release is now out. Noteworthy fixes: All repository dates were incorrectly parsed . This also had the unpleasant side effect of always considering the tasks stale, which slowed [...]

This version is hot on the heels of Mantis 1.2.0 , therefore we build on the latest SOAP features added in that release. Retrieve tasks using built-in filters Up till now, retrieving tasks was only possible if you defined filters using the web interface. We now take advantage of recent bug fixes in MantisBT to [...]

The Mylyn-Mantis connector 3.1.0 brings new features and stability improvements. The highlight of this release is building on Mylyn’s  web services support to bring a more predictable model of interaction with the Mantis repositories. Credentials ... [More] dialog We now build on the support offered by Mylyn to display a credentials dialog when access is denied for [...] [Less]

UI improvements The Steps to reproduce and Additional info fields are now collapsed if empty. This helps increase the information density when first opening the task editor. Better support for internationalised Mantis installations Until this release ... [More] the connector was reading the task status as a string and looking for the harcoded default values. This broke [...] [Less]

Custom field support The headline for this release is custom fields are now supported. The fields are enabled by default and usable for both new task submissions and editing existing tasks. I’ve also enabled the ETA field to be a drop-down list. Filtered trees for project selection Project selection for the new task wizard and [...]

Summer seems to be a good time for hacking code, and I’ve prepared a new release of the Mantis Connector for Mylyn. Version 3.0.4 adds the possibility of creating sub-tasks for repositories which support it ( version 1.2.0a3 or better): Other fixes ... [More] of interest are: Provide user-friendly error messages on repository validation; Fixed problem with [...] [Less]