RE: [mylar-dev] Quick question regarding recapturing original context

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

Yes, we are planning to support attaching contexts to Bugzilla reports:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=113848   However, the driving
use case there is the sharing of reports (e.g. delegating reports, pair
programming, applying patches).  Although we are likely to end up with a
policy that every completed task gets a context committed to the report,
this is still a bit different than the context backup use case that you
encountered.  For that we have the export facility:
http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/doc/faq.php#tasklist-blank  Which reminds me
that we need an import facility, because currently you have to manually
overwrite your contexts, so I just added a new bug for that:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=126271

By default in Mylar closing a file is equivalent to reducing it's interest
and the interest of it's children.  So you didn't lose your context--those
things just became interesting.  However, by deleting all the XML files you
deleted all of your contexts.  If you can restore into that directory (e.g.
from the recycle bin) you will get the back.  Otherwise remember to use the
export facility occasionally.  We could also consider having an automatic
prompt to periodically back up the task list and contexts to a specified
directory?

Mik 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jim Bethancourt
> Sent: February 2, 2006 1:02 PM
> To: Mylar developer discussions
> Subject: [mylar-dev] Quick question regarding recapturing original context
> 
> Hi everyone,
> Will / should the bug's code context be transferred from bugzilla as
> well?  I'm a little confused, as that doesn't seem to be happening for
> me at the moment.  I noticed that it was happening last night when I
> was playing with it, but I went and accidentally closed some of the
> open editors and basically lost the context.  I went and deleted the
> .mylar XML files hoping to re-acquire the context, but I think I lost
> the context data alltogether and I can't seem to get context on any of
> the bugs.  Is there any mechanism in place to re-acquire context from
> the server?  I tried synchronizing with the repository, and that
> unfortunately didn't work.  If it would be better for me to reinstall
> everything, that would be fine too -- I'm just trying to be a good
> newbie.
> 
> This might be an enhancement request as well -- re-acquiring context
> data for a bug from the server in a case where the user is
> inadvertently careless. ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
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