Hi,
I’m pleased to announce that we have started a new Mylyn
connector project for the issue reporting module of Compuware Changepoint
(often referred as CARS). Just a little bit of background:
For those who don’t know about Compuware, the PR stuff
can be found here: http://www.compuware.com/corporate/default.htm
Changepoint is an IT portfolio management software used by
big IT companies and the issue reporting is a complementary module of it. The
sales pitch can be found here: http://www.compuware.com/products/changepoint/default.htm
and there:
http://www.compuware.com/products/CARS/default.htm
The team that will be spending some time on this project is
located in the beautiful city of Montréal, Québec
(the French speaking part of Canada)
. At Compuware, we are a few that have the chance to spend some time on open
source initiatives, so we have some ppl that are getting involved in projects
such as Apache MUSE, Eclipse COSMOS and I’m planning to broaden that up
to other projects such as ActiveMQ and Mylyn. This means that once the connector
will be in a pretty good shape, I plan to assign some resources to help fix bugs
in Mylyn (if you’re interested ;)) and recommend Mylyn to be used company
wide as corporate standard (or best practice).
The connector will be using webservices to gather and update
information in Changepoint. As a side note, Changepoint is developed in .Net by
the followers of the dark side ;) which some of them are also located in Montreal. The great
thing about this is that they will shape the webservices to our specifications.
I already started developing the base structure of the connector by following
the Integrator Reference and I’ll be looking at Trac and JIRA as
examples.
If you have any pointers, suggestions or invitation for a
beer, feel free to contact me!
Have a nice day,
pld
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