Whats the best way to start using Mylyn? [closed]

Question

I've heard a lot of good things about using Mylyn in eclipse.

How could I set it up to give me a taste of how I could use it?

Answer 1

The seminal Developerworks article from the 2.0 release is a great introduction to Mylyn, and still relevant. Written by the Mik Kirsten who is the Mylyn project lead, it is a very clear explanation of something quite unique. Lots of pretty pictures showing it in action too.

• Mylyn Part one - Integrated Task Management
• Mylyn Part two - Automated Context Management

Answer 2

Simple define tasks for yourself and let Mylyn focus on it. I'm not able to use the bugtracking connections of Mylyn because we use a non-standard tracking solution at work (home grown and awfull), but the fast task-context switching with Mylyn is very usefull in daily work. I work as senior developer so many times come orthers to ask something about their part of the code. I have a task for this interrupts, activate it and after they've gone i could simple swith back to my work.