In a new post on his blog, Rob de Boer talks about how he waited in anticipation for the official Eclipse Europa release, and especially kept an eye out for Mylyn. "for the first time in my career I actually anticipated the release of a piece of software. I am even “ashamed” to say that I actually count down the hours and minutes of the official Eclipse Europa release. The main reason why I chose to give Eclipse a try for the fifth time is because of the great plugins that were released with it, one of them being Mylyn. I tried Mylyn out today and I have to say…I’m impressed. Of course, there are some minor bugs in it, but overall it works like a charm. It will take me some time to get used to the Task-Focused UI, but I can already see its benefits."
Rob goes onto speak about the main features in Mylyn such as integration with JIRA, task contexts, and more. "I still have to work with Mylyn in a real-world project, but I think the chances are big that I will keep using it," says Rob.