Re: Good Idea - PERT and CPM algorithms and utilities

[fr33domlover <fr33domlover mailoo org>]

I will happily help with shaping the code. The algorithms themselves are
the important part after all, and coding conventions is something you
learn along the way.

C is great for algorithms IMHO: procedural and fast.

As to Github, I personally - as I believe in software freedom and
decentralization as important basic social values - don't use Github
because it's centralized and parts of the code are proprietary. So
pesonally I prefer Gitorious (code is fully free and available for
cloning/derived work) in case self-hosting is not possible, but of
course you're free to choose whatever you feel it best. Just my personal
view :)


-- fr33domlover

On ש', 2014-01-11 at 08:44 -0500, Andrew Willson wrote:
> I'm familiar with project management theory, and have plenty of
> resources in my paper library.  My plan is to begin implementing
> everything from scratch in C, although I may have a peak at the
> octave-forge financial algorithms for hints.  This will help recall
> items I've forgotten, and increase my programming skills at the same
> time.  Beware, though, that I'm an electrical engineer and not a
> programmer by trade - so I'm sure things will be a bit sloppy.  Helpful
> hints for cleaner code will be appreciated... and, I'd prefer to use
> github to locate code. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fr33domlover <fr33domlover mailoo org>
> To: Andrew Willson <andrew willson 1024bits com>
> Cc: planner-dev-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Good Idea - PERT and CPM algorithms and utilities
> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:41:42 +0200
>
> Hello Andrew,
>
>
>
> I'm glad you find that idea useful. I have not implemented that library
> yet. I'm working on a semantic desktop project, and I am planning to
> create such a tool that would integrate with the semantic storage.
>
> However, the algorithms and in-memory data structures have much less to
> do with the semantic storage, and I would write that library in parallel
> to my other project(s) if I had time. You are very welcome to go ahead
> and implement it, allowing me to integrate it later with a layer of
> semantic desktop. Imagine a direct link between Planner tasks and
> Evolution memos/tasks/calendar etc.
>
> I don't know much about project management theory, but I'm not sure how
> much you do, so allow me to suggest that you use two sources when
> writing algorithms:
>
> 1. Known software like TaskJuggler and OpenERP
> 2. Articles about algorithms, e.g. some academic articles have very
> interesting suggestions like algorithms that don't always give the
> absolute best result, but are much faster than the ones which do always
> find the one best solution
>
> Using 1 is enough, but having some theory in the design docs and
> knowledge for the long term using 2 would be nice. So if you have time
> for the bit of extra research, you can go to some university to get free
> access to academic resources like IEEEXplore. If not, give me names of
> articles and I can get them for you for free. Unless you can afford them
> and prefer to.
>
> I don't remember what exactly I was planning, but feel free to ask about
> anything. Also the maintainer of Planner is available here and on IRC,
> don't worry about the lack of development. And I'm on IRC too as user
> 'akrasner' (or 'fr33domlover' sometimes).
>
>
>
>
> Please report progres :-)
>
> P.S. Take into account licenses: For example if you want it to be GPL
> (I'd use GPLv3+ personally) you may be unable to copy code of
> incompatible license, e.g. maybe OpenERP is like that. In that case you
> can just take the algorithm itself, not the code. After all the
> algorithm is what's important.
>
> On ו', 2014-01-10 at 20:54 -0500, Andrew Willson wrote:
> > I've been using Planner on and off for various projects and have found
> > it useful.  However, development seems to be uneven and very slow right
> > now.  In looking for some news on any developments, I checked out this
> > mailing list and found Anatoly's post as the last one... and it's a
> > great idea!  So, I'd like to know if Anatoly got anywhere with the idea
> > of creating a general purpose project management function library for
> > C/C++.  If not, perhaps I can make an attempt over the next few months
> > or so...
> >
> > --A
> >
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