Re: [Evolution] Project Management with Evolution

[Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>]

Very interesting thought exercise overall.  One comment.

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 00:57 +0200, Jesse Pretorius wrote:
> Perhaps we should eliminate the 'tasks' idea as it now is, and create a
> specialised appointment that is marked as a 'project' appointment. This
> can then be busy searched against to check when the next available
> timeframe is for a project using a particular resource.

This works if each task gets 100% of your available time.  Most times
you are working on several tasks at the same time (10% to this, 30% to
that, etc.).  Solving this would add the complexities of taking % of
time allocated to the task, and assigning that many hours of the work
day.  Of course meetings eat into the available time a resource has, and
would need to be able to be flagged as related to the task (and thus
part of the allocated time) or not (and thus eat up other currently
non-allocated time).

I think sticking with your first proposal of just showing tasks in a bar
across the days, if they have start and end dates, would be the easiest
first step.  Maybe introducing the complexities mentioned above in a
future release.

Anyway, overall a good idea - IMO.

Lonnie Borntreger