Re: [mylyn-dev] Mylyn Connector for Trello

[Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nicholas,

great to hear that you are interested in a Trello Mylyn connector. I would recommend filing a bug in the Eclipse.org Bugzilla under Mylyn that links to documentation of the REST API or other information that could be relevant for developing a connector. If you are lucky someone from the community will pick it up :).

Thanks,

Steffen

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Nicholas Albion <nalbion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

One of my colleagues has suggested that we use Trello as an online task wall.  The two main advantages are that it's free and simple to use.

I'd be a lot more inclined to use Trello if there was a Mylyn connector - it should be fairly simple, right?

Trello has a RESTful API, but the Mylyn Web Task Repository will only import the first "card" in each list because the JSON response is all on one line.

The RESTful API is documented at https://trello.com/docs/index.html

There is also a Java implementation: https://github.com/joelso/trello4j

The Mylyn wiki suggested that before anyone starts work on a Connector they should send an email to mylyn-dev.  I'm also sending this email to feature-ideas@trello in the hope that somebody there will do the work for me :-)

The features that I'd like to see (maybe implement myself) are:

- Authenticate using OAuth (actually, the simplest solution to implement would be to ask the user to manually get a "never" expiring token: https://trello.com/docs/gettingstarted/index.html#getting-a-token-from-a-user)

- Create a "New/Edit Query" UI to query one of the following (with "?key=${hardCodedKey}&token=${tokenObtainedFromPreviousStep}"):

-  ${serverUrl}/1/boards/${boardID}/cards/[visible|open|closed|all]

-  ${serverUrl}/1/lists/${listID}/cards

    (boardID and listID can be obtained from https://api.trello.com/1/members/me and https://api.trello.com/1/boards/[board_id]/lists respectively

- For each Card (Task) display:

- name

- description

- closed

- due

- And optionally (in a future release)

- badges

- check lists

- members

- date of last activity

- labels

- attachments

- votes

- The main piece of editing I'd like to be able to do from the Mylyn connector would be to move any card from one list to another - eg "To Do"->"Doing", "Doing"->"Done"

- Ultimately, it would be good to be able to edit and create Tasks/Cards from Mylyn but I could live without that for now.

Regards,

Nicholas Albion

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