Bug Tracking using Mylyn and Trac

You will need to be using the Eclipse IDE in order to use the Mylyn Plugin.

The mylyn plugin can be found at http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/.

Follow the installation instructions that are appropriate for your version of Eclipse.

I use 'FastViews' a lot when developing in Eclipse, so after installation of the mylyn plugin I add a new fastview for both 'Task Repositories' and 'Task Lists'.

For those who don't know what a fastview is it is a button on a toolbar normally on the side or bottom of the eclipse window which enables a pop up to be displayed.

Once you have your fast views working then open the 'Task Repository' fastview and right click and create a new repository. You will then need to paste the url of your Trac Installation. In my case this looks something like https://www.***.com/trac/***/nameofproject. Then enter your username and password should your Trac Installation require this. Then click validate settings.

To Create a Task
So how do you get your tasks to appear in the task list? You should now be able to now go to your fastview called 'Task List' just type an asterisk into the 'find' text box in the task list and hit enter.

To Add a Task
You should now be able to now go to your fastview called 'Task List' and right click and create a new task and select the repository you want your task stored in.

NOTE:If you find that your task opens up in a Trac webpage it is likely your Trac Installation does not have the XML-RPC plugin which is required for the Mylyn to use its internal Bug Frontend. You should be able to install the plugin to your Trac Installation easy enough and once you have done this, go back to the fastview titled 'Task Repositories' select you repository and under additional settings select XML-RPC as the access type. When you add a Task now you should be using the Mylyn bug Reporting Tools rather than the webpage.


Happy Bug Tracking.

Amazon S3 useful commands with S3Sync

If you are using Amazon's S3 service for Simple Storage (offsite backups) in conjunction with the S3Sync Project then there are some simple commands that may be of benefit to you

From the command line browse to the directory that hold the file s3cmd.rb

To list all available buckets type

./s3cmd.rb listbuckets

To create a bucket

./s3cmd.rb createbucket BucketName

To list all files within a bucket

./s3cmd.rb list BucketName

To list all files within a key

./s3cmd.rb list BucketName:Key

To drill down into folders in a bucket

./s3cmd.rb list BucketName:Key/folder1/folder2

To copy a directory from a bucket to your local computer

./s3sync.rb -r BucketName:Key/folder/subfolder /somedirectory