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Mylyn/SOC/A Wiki Integrated Task Editor
Hackers
Student: Jingwen Ou
Mentor(s): Steffen Pingel
Abstract
WikiText is a new component of Mylyn, supporting lightweight markup language for its task editor. The goal is to provide Mylyn’s task editor with rich text viewing and editing of markup dialects such as Textile and MediaWiki. Detailed proposal is available here.
This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2008.
Timeline
Here is a complete list of the milestones and release dates.
bug 233819 is the root bug for this project. The following is a list of selected bugs. A complete list is available here.
| Milestone | Date | Planned items | Related bugs |
| M1 | June 8, 2008 | Textile-J integration | bug 234210 |
| M2 | June 29, 2008 | rich text integration | bug 235222, bug 237131. bug 237504, bug 203670, bug 194269, bug 236962, bug 241167, bug 213131, bug 219939, bug 236962 |
| M3 | July 13, 2008 | drop & drag of the source element to the task editor | bug 237831, bug 237974, bug 239087 |
| M4 | July 27, 2008 | configuration setting of the rich text editor | bug 237500, bug 237678, bug 235439 |
| M5 | August 18, 2008 | structure outline, code format & spell checking | bug 242977 |
| RC1 | Auguest 10, 2008 | related bugs, performance improvement | bug 238038, bug 116487, bug 203670, bug 239087, bug 237831, bug 134165 |
| RC2 | August 15, 2008 | documentation | http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/SOC/A_Wiki_Integrated_Task_Editor |
| Pencils down | August 18, 2008 | final evaluations |
Getting the source
Please refer to this page to get all the source code. New features will be shipped with Mylyn 3.1 in December, 2008. Stay tuned...
WikiText "Trailers"
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Rich Text Editing |
New comments can now be typed in a WYSIWYG way. The formatting will appear as typing goes and be rendered with a stylesheet.
Users don’t have to remember any syntax with the help of content assist.
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Rich Text Viewing |
New comments can be previewed before posting.
Comments are viewed in rich text formatting.
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Dialects Switching |
Use your favorite dialects in current repository.
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Maximization of New Comment Textarea |
Press to maximize the text area.
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Support of Drop & Drag (Beta) |
Drop any source elements to the task editor instead of typing their long names.
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Dynamic Comment Groupings (Beta) |
Group all the comments after your last comment in the "Current" section and always expand the section for you.
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Task Editor Find (Beta) |
Find & highlight the keywords instead of looking for information by eyes.
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Related Links
- http://tasktop.com/blog/?p=37
- http://greensopinion.blogspot.com/2008/08/textile-j-is-moving-to-mylyn-wikitext.html
- http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/800/771 (this project is named as one of the success stories in the Google Summer of Code program)