Started a small pet project on GitHub, the main driver being learning collaboration. And also a chance to brush up on some Java.
As it turned out, my much-loved Mylyn plugin has a connector to GitHub. That means you can create, comment on, and assign tasks (or rather, in GitHub’s terminology and approach, issues) right from Eclipse. On top of that, I can edit those tasks directly in the Markdown editor, and of course see in Eclipse the tasks added via the web.
Also — you can assign labels, milestones, and plan task dates.
What remained unclear is how to create (and manage in general) milestones from Eclipse, but even the existing functionality is very pleasant, clear, and convenient.
For now the branches in this project are named dev/shame/*, because it’s embarrassing both to look at yourself and to show other people.