Bug 129995 - Support for offline "web linked" tasks
Summary: Support for offline "web linked" tasks
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Mylyn (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows All
: P4 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Mik Kersten CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted
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Reported: 2006-03-01 12:37 EST by Eugene Kuleshov CLA
Modified: 2007-05-25 18:15 EDT (History)
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Description Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2006-03-01 12:37:00 EST
When working offline it would be handy to see linked pages in Mylar's task web browser.

Probably this could be implemented using some special caching http proxy, so previously visited pages and their resource could be saved locally.
Comment 1 Mik Kersten CLA 2006-03-28 11:59:31 EST
Our focus is Eclipse rich UI editing, not improving the web-embedding experience, so we won't get to this anytime soon.

But perhaps what you would like is a form-based editor for JIRA that has offline support? 
Comment 2 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2006-03-28 13:49:22 EST
(In reply to comment #1)
> Our focus is Eclipse rich UI editing, not improving the web-embedding
> experience, so we won't get to this anytime soon.

Mik, it is not about editing, but rather about accessing issue info offline, especially for repositories that don't have rich providers.

> But perhaps what you would like is a form-based editor for JIRA that has
> offline support? 

Sure, that would be handy for tasks from Jira repositories.


Comment 3 Mik Kersten CLA 2006-03-28 14:01:10 EST
Right--I was being unclear since the Bugzilla editor is how our offline support surfaces, and would like to see that generalized to JIRA.  But I agree that the key value with that is being able to access reports when working offline, and between flaky connections and flights find that an important feature.

Since part of our story is good integration with web linked tasks, and it should be fairly straightforward to implement caching of HTML pages and reading them into the browser when we fail to connect to the repository.  So I'm reopening this bug.  However, since we need to focus our efforts on the rich editing I have to mark it helpwanted for the time being.

Could you please file a bug report for form-based editing of JIRA issues?
Comment 4 Mik Kersten CLA 2006-05-23 12:52:44 EDT
Report for offline editing of JIRA is bug 143260.
Comment 5 Mik Kersten CLA 2007-05-25 18:15:43 EDT
Supporting offline caching of web pages is out of the scope of the project since our focus is supporting rich offline access, not offline HTML/DOM access, which browsers like Firefox are astarting to support and which local proxies could be used for as suggested.