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Intent
Presentation
Intent is a proposed new open source project under the Mylyn top-level project. Intent 0.7 M6 is available as part of Eclipse Juno Release Train.
Don't know where to start ? Check our useful links or check Intent project summary.
The main purpose of Intent is to allow developers to easily write a documentation up-to-date with any development artifact (models, code, environment…). The documentation, integrated with other Eclipse tools, then becomes truly useful and is no longer a burden that developers have to carry to please their customers or their project manager.
Based on Donald Knuth’s Literate Programming concepts and allowing collaborative work around design tasks, Intent was presented at Agile ALM connect 2012.
"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
Donald Knuth, Literate Programming (1984)
Intent Overview
The following pages provide an overview of the Intent project :
- Project mission statement - general presentation of Intent
- Intent demos - Intent demonstrated with Videos
- Use Cases and Scenarios - step by step use cases with screenshots
- Architecture - design choices and extensibility
- 2012 release plan - what we intend to do for the Intent 0.7 (Juno)
- Buzz - articles and blog posts about Intent
- Intent Useful links - All useful links to understand what Intent is about
Get Started
- User FAQ - if the answer your are looking for is not here, just ask the question
- Installation Guide - How to install Intent
- Tutorials - Tutorials to get started with Intent
- Intent Useful links - All useful links to understand what Intent is about
Get involved
- Developper FAQ - if the answer your are looking for is not here, just ask the question
- Customize & extend Intent behavior - learn how to extend Intent to fit your needs
- Further Readings - books, articles and scientific papers used to create Intent
- Intent Useful links - All useful links to understand what Intent is about
The Intent Project
Currently in incubation phase, it is part of the Mylyn's Docs project.
News
- 04/04/2012 : Transcript of the Agile ALM 2012 talk
- 02/12/2011 : Intent will be at Agile ALM Connect 2011
- 08/11/2011 : Transcript of the EclipseCon Europe 2011 talk
- 04/11/2011 : Intent will be at EclipseCon Europe 2011
- 02/09/2011 : Intent Nightly Builds in place
- 04/07/2011 : Intent is now on github
- 11/04/2011 : Intent website has been created
- 22/03/2011 : Talk at Eclipse con : Mylyn meets Intent...
- 17/03/2011 : Intent Creation Review succeeded
- New post : Mylyn Intent @ EclipseCon 2011
- 01/02/2011 : Intent proposal has been published
- 27/12/2010 : Intent will be at Eclipse Con 2011
- New post : Intent Discovery - Part 1 : the intents behind softwares