Bug 252681 - generalize the Task Repositories view to support other ALM repositories
Summary: generalize the Task Repositories view to support other ALM repositories
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Mylyn (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P2 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.5   Edit
Assignee: Steffen Pingel CLA
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Depends on: 302907 318097 323313
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Reported: 2008-10-29 16:47 EDT by Mik Kersten CLA
Modified: 2011-02-05 20:20 EST (History)
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Description Mik Kersten CLA 2008-10-29 16:47:23 EDT 
We have other kinds of ALM repositories that extend tasktop and require the facilities that we currently provide in the Task Repositories abstraction, i.e.:
* Connectivity credentials and settings such as proxies and httpauth
* Repository connection testing and state
* Repository management via the Task Repositories view

Other repositories to consider are:
* Calendars
* Build servers
* Test servers
Comment 1 maarten meijer CLA 2009-10-26 04:54:26 EDT 
Also a valid feature for the Industrail SQL Connector for Mylyn, anything in a database and useful inside Eclipse as container for task context can be connected to.
Comment 2 Steffen Pingel CLA 2010-03-18 19:19:19 EDT 
Remy, I couldn't quite figure out how connections or accounts are currently persisted by ECF. A generalized repositories view might provide a good entry point for users to manage those.
Comment 3 Remy Suen CLA 2010-03-18 19:40:42 EDT 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Remy, I couldn't quite figure out how connections or accounts are currently
> persisted by ECF.

They're not persisted at the moment so it would've been impossible for you to figure it out. ;) There are some outstanding requests about this like bug 166670 and bug 247110.

> A generalized repositories view might provide a good entry
> point for users to manage those.

This does seem like a noble cause.
Comment 4 Steffen Pingel CLA 2010-05-18 13:55:20 EDT 
I am taking this story of the milestone. The goal for Helios is to complete bug 302907 to improve the presentation of the current Task Repositories view and we will consider additional generalization, e.g. a common navigator based content provider in the next release cycle.
Comment 5 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-02-05 20:20:39 EST 
We are not planning to do any additional work than what has been completed as part of bug 318097. Once the Team Repositories view is a full replacement for the Task Repositories view we are planning to deprecate it (bug 336427).