[Planner Dev] Re: Planner-dev Digest, Vol 24, Issue 8

[Fabio Ceconello <fabio iapyx com br>]

You are right, dotProject is not strong about UI. The more important 
concept I like (and I assume is the same for StreberPM) is to have all 
the data for all projects in one database. It's a powerful concept, much 
more flexible than having individual files. What I can say in defense of 
dotProject (yeah, I'm biased, I know) is that it appears to have a 
better DB structure. Not that it doesn't have its failures - the access 
control policies weren't well implemented, there are many gaps that I'm 
still trying to fix.

I'm interested in dP also because I already use it, and I implemented an 
additional feature that's being very useful (and I would like to use in 
Planner someday): I don't attribute a 'duration' to tasks; instead 
there's a new field called 'workload' in which you assign how much time 
each assigned programmer estimates to finish that task. Then, I have a 
function that checks each user's calendar for available time and assigns 
a 'workload record' to it in the next available days, until the total 
workload quota is met. The function, after assigning workload records 
for all the programmers, checks the date for the first and last ones, 
and automatically gives me the start/end dates and duration for the task.

But, instead of using specifically dP or Streber, maybe could be 
implemented a standard interface for storing and retrieving project 
information to/from a database, in which 'connector modules' could be 
made by the community (including me) to make Planner work with both, and 
others too.

Regards,
Fabio Ceconello

kurt maute us wrote:

> Thoughts?
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> Message: 3 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:01:11 -0500 From: Kurt Maute 
> <kurt maute us> Subject: Re: [Planner Dev] Fixing database support To: 
> Planner Project Manager - Development List 
> <planner-dev lists imendio com> Message-ID: 
> <1132930871 2724 111 camel dori> Content-Type: text/plain On Fri, 
> 2005-11-25 at 09:52 -0500, Kurt Maute wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 10:09 -0300, Fabio Ceconello wrote:
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> >
> > > > > I highly recommend that you take a look in dotProject 
> > > > > (dotproject.sourceforge.net). If you would like to take a look in my 
> > > > > dotProject installation, I can give you a login. And if you need some 
> > > > > help in the development effort, I think I can spare some time to it, so 
> > > > > please contact me.
> > >      
> > >
> > >
> > > Sounds like a good idea - though having looked at dotProject, the UI
> > > leaves much to be desired.  I like the UI for StreberPM better, but more
> > > likely its more immediately important to have a similar feature base.
> >    
> Oh yeah, Streber PM can be found here: http://www.streber-pm.org/