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Bug 248364

Summary: improve import/export functionality
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel>
Component: MylynAssignee: Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status: CLOSED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: mknauer, remy.suen, robert.elves, wrobel
Version: unspecifiedKeywords: plan
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on: 197307, 204711, 206734, 217953, 220421, 226214, 235488, 236146, 240191, 283525, 325942, 371187    
Bug Blocks:    
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Description Flags
mylyn/context/zip none

Description Steffen Pingel CLA 2008-09-23 22:33:31 EDT
Due to the refactoring of the task list externalization the import/export functionality should be reviewed.
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2008-12-10 06:11:48 EST
Bug 217953 was the one I was talking to you about at ESE, Steffen. I guess this you folks are shooting for 3.2. here.

By the way, your project plan is off because 3.1 is March 4th and 3.2 is March 2nd. :)
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=tools.mylyn#release_milestones
Comment 2 Steffen Pingel CLA 2008-12-10 12:57:10 EST
Unfortunately we can't commit for 3.1 to improve the import/export API due to limited resources. Thanks for pointing out the error in the plan. I have fixed the date. A two day release cycle seems a bit ambitious considering how many bugs are scheduled for the milestone already :).
Comment 3 Steffen Pingel CLA 2009-01-27 22:59:00 EST
Due to time constraints we are unable to provide import/export functionality for tasks in the Mylyn project. The current implementation has several short comings that can cause data loss and dead locks. Therefore it was decided to drop import/export for tasks and to support backup/restore of the entire task list and import/export for queries only.
Comment 4 Steffen Pingel CLA 2009-01-29 02:06:00 EST
Created attachment 124124 [details]
mylyn/context/zip
Comment 5 Mik Kersten CLA 2009-02-06 10:23:10 EST
Contributions and elaborations on use cases are welcome.

Markus: Adding you to the CC, since Jochen Krause once showed me an Inoopract tool that may have depended on this functionality.  I'm not sure, but wanted to give you guys a heads-up.
Comment 6 Steffen Pingel CLA 2009-08-13 03:31:20 EDT
*** Bug 157546 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Steffen Pingel CLA 2012-03-08 12:52:40 EST
*** Bug 371190 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST
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