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Mylar project and task extensions for Eclipse

From the Mylar website:

Mylar is a task-focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA. Once your tasks are integrated, Mylar monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what’s related. This puts the information you need to get work done at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit Mylar also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.

Now, I’m not a huge Eclipse fan, as I don’t particularly like the way the whole thing “feels” to me, but I have to say that this level of integration—if you ignore the last sentence’s obvious marketing bozo-speak—is a darn fine thing. I use Trac for managing even my own projects, and as much as I abhor Bugzilla, I also know it’s everywhere. JIRA I’ve never used, but also heard good things from those who have. It’s like Perforce: great, but not free.

I have decent integration of Subversion with TextMate, but it’d be nice to have some kind of integration with Trac. Alas, TextMate, at least for now, is an editor, not an IDE, even though it is highly extensible. It’ll be interesting to watch as 2.0 progresses to see if it might be more capable of this kind of functionality through plugins.