414:. Note that I'm considered the inventor of this technology, but did not update this article until today, when I was informed of it being marked for deletion. I agree that when marked for deletion, the article did not demonstrate the relevance of the technology. However, this technology is in daily use by a very large portion of software developers, a rapidly increasing number of software managers, and the "task-focused interface" term is a very important and well reckognized term for the 5-10 million who have downloaded it (For real-time download stats in the past 2 months see the
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grounding, I will invite others involved with creation and application of the technology to elaborate on the entry. This is a relatively new technology, but by most accounts of technology dissemination, it has recently reached critical mass in terms of significance. Regarding the title, it does appear that the author made a mistake in capitalization. I think it's best not to rename to "Mylyn task focused interface", since there are significant implementations of the technology that are unrelated to the
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Eclipse users. By any estimates, the number of Eclipse users is in the millions, as such the term "task-focused interface" is relevant to millions. In addition, as the article now indicates, over the past year the relevance of the term has reached well beyond Eclipse (43,100 matches for
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Quote: 'the "task-focused interface" term is a very important and well reckognized term for the 5-10 million who have downloaded it' - that is an unfounded statement. Most users download the whole
Eclipse package and are not aware of each of its components. For example, my colleagues (several dozen)
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appear to be about this non-consumer software product. It's hard to determine whether any of the ones that also mention "Mylyn" are substantially about this product, but even so, whatever this is, it ain't going to be a household name anytime soon. The relevant ones would also appear to be couched
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issues, which themselves do not require deletion: it obviously did help in this case for the article to get attention from someone who knows the subject well. I am not yet convinced that this particular software or technology is of abiding historical or wide general interest outside the realm of
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If the above answers provide enough evidence of the importance of this article, I am happy to address this "walled garden" problem and improve the description of the technology, which I have not yet touched, and improve its linking and categorization.
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Tasktop Technologies by 2 years and the impact reaches far beyond the one company. I hope that my updates to the History section make this clear, but let me know if not and I can add additional references and elaborate on the
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Eclipse a lot, but we don't use Mylyn, let alone the term "task-focused interface". I also doubt that it is used by 'a very large portion of software developers'. What percentage? Are there independent sources for that claim?
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Eclipse users are aware of the term Mylyn, and either they know what it means or do not. "Mylyn" is defined as a "task-focused interface". There are 1,250 exact matches for
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and fan out from that. You should end up with hundreds of citations stating the impact of the "task-focused interface" and the "task context" and "degree-of-interest" model that underlies it.
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Fair point, I should have substantiated this claim. Eclipse downloads, counted as unique requests to the
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