Trac and Mylyn integration

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Eclipse Mylyn helps handling tasks and issues from within Eclipse. Trac and Mylyn can play very well together.

This page will help you to configure both your Trac account and your Mylyn plugin so that you can get the best of both worlds.

Set up your Trac account

Once you have become a committer for the Squale project, the PMCs will provide you with a user and a password to connect to the Trac server at: https://project.squale.org

Please log in as soon as possible and change your password by clicking on "My Account" on the top right part of the page.

To learn more about how Trac works, especially for the issue tracking part of it, please refer to the online documentation:

Configure Mylyn to connect to Trac

Eclipse Mylyn can connect to Trac to bring back into Eclipse all the issues that are stored on the Trac server, and to create new ones without having to use the web interface.

To connect Eclipse to Trac via Mylyn:

  1. Open the "Task repositories" view of Mylyn
  2. Right-click and select "Add Task Repository"
  3. Select Trac
  4. Enter the following information:
    • Server: https://project.squale.org
    • Label: Squale Project
    • User ID: your_committer_ID
    • Password: your_password
    • Save Password: select this option
    • Additional Settings -> Access Type: XML-RPC Plugin
  5. Click on "Validate Settings": if everything is fine, then click on "Finish"
  6. Open the "Task list" view: you should start seeing issues and you'll get notified when new are created.

Note: if you have trouble to connect to Trac, you may need to configure some proxy settings in Eclipse preferences

Once you've connected your Mylyn to Trac, you have to create queries in the "Task list" view so that you can see issues within Eclipse. To learn more about Mylyn and how to use it, please visit the following links: