UI improvements

The Steps to reproduce and Additional info fields are now collapsed if empty. This helps increase the information density when first opening the task editor.

Better support for internationalised Mantis installations

Until this release the connector was reading the task status as a string and looking for the harcoded default values. This broke both internationalised Mantis installations and those with custom workflows.

Now we do the right thing and compare the task status priority with the one defined in the Mantis installation, which means we behave exactly as the web interface does.

Custom field support

The headline for this release is custom fields are now supported. The fields are enabled by default and usable for both new task submissions and editing existing tasks. I’ve also enabled the ETA field to be a drop-down list.

Filtered trees for project selection

Project selection for the new task wizard and new query wizard now use the more elegant filtered trees provided by the Mylyn project.

Increased responsiveness

The new pages should feel much faster than the old ones since reviewing them has uncovered some unfounded assumptions which were costly performance-wise.

Minor fixes

I’ve also taken care of a few minor annoyances:

1. Replying to comments now properly quotes the origin, instead of (null);
2. It is now possible to attach more than one screenshot, and the user-submited names are respected;
3. Mantis installations with more exotic access threshold  values don’t cause task retrieval failures;
4. Repository configuration updates now have a more predictable progress rate;
5. Bundle dependencies are now more carefully set, to assist integrators.

As always, our bug tracker and forums await you.

Summer seems to be a good time for hacking code, and I’ve prepared a new release of the Mantis Connector for Mylyn.

Version 3.0.4 adds the possibility of creating sub-tasks for repositories which support it ( version 1.2.0a3 or better):

Other fixes of interest are:

1. Provide user-friendly error messages on repository validation;
2. Fixed problem with file uploads which happened on starting with Mantis 1.1.7;
3. Fixed problem with being unable to submit tasks for repositories with custom priorities.

As always, our bug tracker and forums await you.

The recent Mylyn 3.2 release features a host of improvements, but one stands out for me, as a Mylyn-Mantis connector committer: the connector discovery mechanism, which allows easy installation of connectors. Mik Kersten has blogged about this already, so I won’t spent too much time praising it.

Even more exciting is that it includes the Mylyn-Mantis connector by default:

This is great news for our visibility, and I hope it will bring a lot of new users, and possibly new contributors.

As always, our bug tracker and forums await you.