Re: [Planner Dev] Suggestion for project tracking planned v. actuals using Phase as a commit/restore tag.

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

On tis, 2004-04-20 at 21:14 +0100, lincoln phipps openmutual net wrote:
> Been bugging me to discuss this - Baselines (as MS Project
> Refers to them) and how do we implement the same in Planner ?.

Gah, another of the lost bugs from the old bugzilla database :) We need
to file a new one.

> My thoughts today as I was dumping garden rubbish at
> the local refuse tip, was this......

Is that your version of meditation? ;)

> My idea is: We have a Project Phase so we should be able
> to "commit" a phase and have the current tasks, work, duration,
> completion and resource assignments (including costs)
> remembered/tagged with that Phase.
> 
> Thus we're not constrained to just 1 "Baseline" but many.
> If someone wants to call a Phase "Baseline" so be it.

That's pretty much like the ideas we were tossing around, to have a way
to keep any number of baselines along the progress of a project.

This would be interesting to think more about,  post-1.0 though.

It would be great if you could add a bug for this.

/Richard