Re: [gnome-love] Project management software for Gnome projects

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:27 PM, אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton gmail com> wrote:

Thanks for the reply!

I will continue writing code and developing the project. And when I'm
done, nobody will need any of those non-free project/task/todo
management tools.

I'm writing it in C++ using gtkmm for GUI.

Ah okay.  Nice.
 

Currently its functionality is more or less what GTG offers, but with
the advantage of fast graph algorithms (because I write in C++ compared
to Python) and very high level of modularity and maintainability (all
components are built on top of each other, so each one is a separate
useful piece of code).

Have you considered approaching the GNOME design folks?  They can help you with giving a nice beautiful GUI.  Of course you can do what you want, but it's worth having a discussion with them.

 

I want to add Semantic Desktop support, but I'm not sure Gnome already
has a plan for a desktop-wide semantic database and
communication/integration. Many separate tools and projects exist, but
there's a lot of work to do. Maybe I should help there...

I don't know either.  It might be a nice capability.  I would like to see more tools for engineering managers to manage information.  For instance, I would like to label emails a correlate them with a project or a set of notes.  It's something like beagle but more focused on labels rather than a search item.  I think it can be done with tracker and extended filesystem attributes.  It's an interesting challenge I think.  But if successful would be enormously popular.

sri

Thanks again :)

- Anatoly

On ש', 2013-03-30 at 12:21 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:35 AM, אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton gmail com>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>
>         I've been working for the past few months on a task management
>         application which makes it very easy and effective to use GTD,
>         delegate
>         tasks to other team members, watch the team's work progress,
>         etc. Before
>         Before I started it, I made a research. I couldn't find a
>         free-software
>         application which did everything I needed for my personal
>         usage
>         patterns, so I just started writing my own app.
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> This is really great!  Out of curiosity what are you writing it in?
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>
>         So I realized how close it is, and how simple. So before I
>         dive further
>         into my project, I'd like to as you a question:
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>         Task management and sharing, collaborative decision making and
>         many
>         other relates tools can be extremely useful for a large
>         organization.
>         Including the Gnome project. Does the Gnome project already
>         use this
>         kind of tools? I've seen Gnome Live, the wiki pages,
>         discussions,
>         brainstorming, roadmaps, etc. but there's a new, higher level
>         of
>         software aided task and project management. Does the Gnome
>         project have
>         an interest to use such technologies?
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>
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> I am not aware of anyone using these kind of tools.  The marketing
> team is the one that's been driving requests for more collaborative
> tools especially from Andrea.  We do have some need to do some project
> management.  I'm sure it would come in handy for those who run GUADEC
> as well.
>
>
> I don't know from a technical stand point what people use or if they
> do any planning.  But the non-coding folks would certainly see some
> benefit.
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>         If it does use them, I'd like to see. I don't want to
>         re-invent the
>         wheel (non-free existing tools don't count). If it doesn't
>         need any such
>         tools, I'd like to hear why. And if you are interested in such
>         tools,
>         I'd like to know. And especially hear about use-cases, feature
>         ideas,
>         etc.
>
>
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> I would encourage you to write it.  I for one would use it, both
> personally and professionally.  Apps like yours would be a boon for
> adoption in corporate offices.
>
>
> I've actually wanted to write something to track the accomplishments
> of people who work for me so that end the year I would have a nice
> list of accomplishments.  Something to think about as well. :-)
>
>
> sri
>
>         Thanks in advance,
>         Anatoly Krasner
>
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