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I use Mylyn with Eclipse SDK (latest I-Build) and it keeps forgetting the attributes (like 3.7 Mx entries from the Milestone list). Clicking the 'Update Attributes from Repository' on the Query Form block the UI for good 5 minutes for me. Needless to say this is very inconvenient.
On what repository did you observe this? Did you see the progress indicator in the dialog? Were you able to cancel?
repository: bugs.eclipse.org I was able to cancel but that too took a while. I would prefer it to refresh in background. possible reason: Slow internet connection that moment. I am OK if it takes long but it should not hold the UI until it completes. May be we can make the query dialog non-modal. Or some way to refresh the attributes in a background job.
The repository configuration attributes are regularly refreshed in the background. If you want to manually trigger a refresh in the background you can use the popup menu in the Task Repositories view. Note that bugs.eclipse.org mirrors the configuration which can sometimes cause a delay when new values are added to the configuration: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_FAQ#Why_are_my_updated_repository_attributes_not_showing_up.3F . In your case it sounds like you keep getting a stale configuration which causes values to get lost. If you go to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/config.cgi in a browser, where does that redirect you? Do you have any Mylyn extensions such as Tasktop installed?
*** Bug 321054 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I had opened another Bug 321054 for attribute problem. It is understandable that new attributes takes a while to get replicated. But here I have them and after I update to next I-build, some of them are gone! and unfortunately they are the ones I need. The link https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/config.cgi redirects me to http://d2u376ub0heus3.cloudfront.net/arch/config.xml I do not have any extension installed. Only these two features Mylyn Connector: Bugzilla 3.4.0.v20100608-0100-e3x org.eclipse.mylyn.bugzilla_feature.feature.group Mylyn Task List (Required) 3.4.0.v20100608-0100-e3x org.eclipse.mylyn_feature.feature.group This particular bug is more about not being able to work while the modal dialog refreshes the attributes (which in my case is slow). I am reopening Bug 321054 to track the attribute refresh issue while this one to blocked UI problem. I believe both the problems are quite different.
I don't see any simple way to run the refreshing of attributes in the background since the query dialog is currently modal. I understand that this an annoyance particularly if the refresh takes a long time, e.g. for Bugzilla repositories with many products. I am open to improving the UI interaction if anyone has good suggestions how to design the workflow.
Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1]. We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub. [1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn
