Re: [mylar-dev] wiki editing in task editor

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Xiaoyang,

 I am not sure what plans Mik has for this project and if it is going 
to be integrated into Mylar codebase. If so, then you'll need to clear 
license and legal issues with EclipseTracPlugin author in case if we 
want to contribute his code to Mylar project, or reimplement same (or 
better) functionality from scratch under EPL license. Have you tried to 
contact with EclipseTracPlugin author and check with him if he wanted to 
collaborate on this?

 It is also worth to mention that there few other levels of integration 
that can be added there. For example, it could use resource bridge for 
wiki content shown in the editor, so Mylar will be able to filter out 
interesting details in the Outline view.

 regards,
 Eugene


Xiaoyang Guan wrote:
> I'm a student working on a Google Summer of Code project 
> on Mylar. I've started working on the project and have been learning 
> the Eclipse PDE and Mylar. From the discussion with Greg Wilson and 
> Mik, the first step is to provide wiki editing facilities in task 
> editor ( https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=184904). I am 
> going to work on the Trac connector with the xml-rpc accessing mode. 
> It looks to me what I need to do is to extend the description and 
> comments sections in Trac tickets so that their content can 
> be displayed with wiki-formatting. I want to confirm whether this is 
> what's expected.
>  
> As Steffen pointed out, there is an Eclipse plugin 
> (http://www.trac-hacks.org/wiki/EclipseTracPlugin) that provides Trac 
> wiki interface within Eclipse. It contains a  wiki page editor, 
> which has a source pane where one can edit the plain text and a 
> preview pane that renders the wiki page. The 
> EclipseTracPlugin retrieves only wiki pages but not tickets from a 
> trac server, so it seems to complement the functions provided by the 
> Trac connector. 
>  
> I noticed that there was a request 
> (http://www.trac-hacks.org/ticket/1349) to the EclipseTracPlugin 
> project for integrating its wiki editor with Mylar. This seems to be 
> exactly what I shall do. I want to check if this is the correct 
> direction to go. Greg has a concern why EclipseTracPlugin doesn't 
> already use Mylar and whether extending it is the best way to move ahead.
>  
> I wish to hear opinions on how I should go forward.
>  
> Regards,
> Xiaoyang