Re: [Planner] Resource dependencies

[Sheldon Simms <wsxyz6294 yahoo com>]

Richard Hult <richard imendio com> wrote:
> tis 2004-01-06 klockan 17.32 skrev Waldemar Augustyn:
> 
> > Similarly, the Planner would not be resolving resource allocation 
> > problems by itself.  Instead, it would offer a tool for the user to do 
> > it on demand.  For example, the user could select a set of tasks, then 
> > hit a button to spread out the load in some pre-determined manner.  It 
> > could be as simple as going in the order of tasks (It would actually 
> > make sense, since tasks tend to be entered in the expected order of 
> > execution).  There could be different buttons indicating different types 
> > of action.  The result would be a creation of dependencies as if entered 
> > by hand, i.e. the Planner would not be re-calculating the resource 
> > allocation rules.
> 
> I have been thinking something along the lines of this too for a while.
> 
> One way to do it could be to have task dependencies that planner sets
> up, and are handled exactly the same as manually added ones, but they
> are displayed differently to indicate that they are added to even out
> the resource load. I think a very simple algorithm could be very helpful
> (like you say, just spread tasks out, according to line nr ordering and
> the task priority property). 
> 
> What do people think of that? It should be a pretty straight forward
> task if anyone is willing to help out.

Since I'm the one who started complaining, I'm willing to help out.
I'm a good C programmer, but I don't have a lot of time at the moment
and don't know anything about the internals of Planner. If that still
sounds useful, toss me a task...

-Sheldon



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