The Git distributed versioning system is being increasingly adopted by the developer community. Using Git for version control makes Gerrit the natural choice for code reviews. Besides source code, requirements and build artifacts lay an important role in the development cycle which are often managed in Hudson and Bugzilla. While these tools enable exciting development process improvements, adapting to new workflows and learning how to push, pull and fetch can be daunting. Furthermore, switching between command line, web-browser and Eclipse-based tool interfaces breaks the flow.
For tasks, Mylyn already streamlines workflow by providing first-class integration with the IDE. The recent Mylyn project restructuring now enables the same integrated workflows for code reviews, builds and version control systems like Git. For example, a developer can use the Mylyn Task List to track a requirement. On task activation, the EGit Mylyn integration automatically branches managing the change in the workspace. Once a commit is pushed Gerrit stages the change, creates a code review and a Hudson build is triggered to execute tests. Meanwhile, the Mylyn Reviews project enables a team member to complete a code review and provide feedback to the developer, all without leaving the IDE. We will show how the tools available in the Mylyn project work together to seamlessly integrate development artifacts in Eclipse and provide traceability all the way from the requirement to the final merge into the production branch.

In order to bring the productivity benefits of the task-focused interface to engineers using Eclipse-based modeling technologies, Mylyn created a “Context Bridge” for EMF-based models and diagram editors. The result of this will be a focused mode for diagrams that shows only the elements related to the task-at-hand, dramatically reducing information overload for engineers working on large models. In addition, the task-focused interface extensions will provide Mylyn’s one-click multitasking facilities for working with models, ensuring that engineers can instantly recover from interruptions, and share model-specific expertise, when working with models in addition to what Mylyn already provides for engineers working with source code. In this session, we will showcase the use of the task-focused interface within the Ecore Tools and the Papyrus UML Editor. In addition, we will discuss the aspects of bringing the task-focused interface to model and diagram editors and will give a quick overview how to enable these for your own diagram types.

Looking for a review tool fully integrated with Eclipse that can preserve your comments at specific line ranges for Java, C/C++ or XML files?
Or that will allow you to register your comments at specific element locations in your EMF based models?

R4E allows you to select commits on multiple version control systems, e.g. Git, SVN, using Mylyn versions connectors.
It will preserve the commit information to allow multiple reviewers to work in parallel, to quickly select the committed files and navigate through the associated differences to carry out the review and register comments. Three types of reviews are available to better adapt to the ways of working in your team: Basic, Informal and Formal IEEE 1028-2008.

R4E interfaces with other tools to integrate the review environment in Eclipse:
- LDAP to resolve contact information of the review participants
- Different mail/calendar systems to automate review notifications and meeting request creation
- BIRT to create metrics reports

The model review features are being developed based on the following improvements: Egit Logical Model support, Papyrus/EMF compare and the Mylyn Context Bridge for EMF based models

This presentation will describe the current and planned features, the architecture and possibilities to extend the functionality.

R4E was demonstrated at Eclipse Hot New Products Showcase and received an honourable mention
It was also presented at Eclipse Demo Camp 2011.
For additional information, see the Mylyn Reviews web site