Re: [mylyn-dev] Task activation/desactivation observation

[Alexandre Mazari <amazari@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

Thanks for your quick answer. Indeed, I am contemplating getting a
tasktop licence.
Still, I'd love to be able to build a small plugin for Mylyn. Any idea ?

Thanks !
Le mardi 05 avril 2011 à 14:29 -0700, David Green a écrit :
> Alexandre,
> 
> 
> You may not be aware that Tasktop offers time tracking as part of
> Tasktop Pro, a commercial offering built on Mylyn.
> http://tasktop.com/support/download/feature_matrix.php
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> David
> 
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Alexandre Mazari <amazari@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         Mylyn devs,
>         
>         Thanks for the great solution, it helps me keeping focus on my
>         current
>         task, schedule my work days and communicate with my fellow
>         developers
>         via Bugzilla. Mylyn rocks. Period :)
>         
>         One thing Mylyn doesn't provide in my daily routine process is
>         the
>         automatic filling of my company time-tracking tool.
>         Basically it is a way for the administrative service to know
>         how many
>         over-the-bill hours were made by each employee. As a lot of us
>         at Igalia
>         work remotely, it is necessary to report worked hours.
>         We use an in-house built but free software tool called
>         PHPReport
>         (http://phpreport.igalia.com/) that offers REST services (well
>         not fully
>         REST compliant but that's another story) to push accomplished
>         tasks.
>         
>         So today I was investigating doing a small plugin, sending
>         data to
>         PHPReport at Mylyn task-desactivation time.
>         Sadly, I couldn't find a way to observe Task lifecycle from
>         the outside.
>         Correct me if I am wrong but there is no extension point to
>         push
>         ITaskActivationListener implementation.
>         
>         Is there a recommended way to be notified at Task
>         activation/desactivation time ?
>         
>         Thanks for your time,
>         
>         Regards,
>         Alexandre Mazari
>         
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