[Planner Dev] TUTOS as a storage backend

[Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine cvf fr>]

Hello,

You may have seen the web project TUTOS (cf. http://www.tutos.org), which goal 
is to become The Ultimate Team Organisation Software. After a year of 
adaptations and after having rewrote the presentation layer, this goal could 
even more than before be fulfilled ;)

The first part of the ongoing work was to separate presentation code to 
application logic one, which is quite done. The second part is to provide a 
way to use application logic from outside TUTOS itself.

I'd really like to see your products being able to use TUTOS as a back-end 
where to fetch and store your data.
For this to be possible, we would have to work together defining a common API, 
which I would implement the server side on TUTOS, may be with your help.

On the « features » side, as I see it, TUTOS only miss task dependency (you 
can move a task forward in time, its children won't be affected, and the 
volume of a main task is not linked to children tasks volumes).
This may not be a problem while we set the API and begin to implement it, and 
anyway I wanted to work on this part...

So, would you be interested in a client-server solution, TUTOS 2 being the 
server and offering a web interface?

I though about providing an XMLRPC access to TUTOS, you may of course have 
some other ideas or requirements, please let me know.



You may want to know that TUTOS 2 is not an official version, cause there is 
still a lot of features available on the main CVS branch and not on the 
BRANCH-2-0 one. As soon as all the modules will be ported to the new upcoming 
version, we will manage a merge of the two branches.

You can get a tutos2 debian package (which will be in debian mirrors by next 
days) here:
  http://debian.tapoueh.org/

There's also a tarball, and the installation is the same as the main tutos 
one, detailed here:
  http://debian.tapoueh.org/tutos2-2.0.20050210.tar.bz
  http://www.tutos.org/homepage/install_easy.html

Note that with the debian package, you start on step 11 of this document.


What about this BRANCH-2-0 stuff?
In fact the main tutos version has the presentation code (html generation) 
melted with the application logic code. TUTOS 2 is using the smarty html 
template engine, thus now the application logic parts are presentation 
independent, and instead of echo'ing some markup strings, it now returns data 
structures, which could be used for some other purposes than html generation.


Looking forward to working with you,
-- 
Dimitri.
http://dim.tapoueh.org

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