Re: [Planner] Planner Maintainership

[Lincoln Phipps <lincoln phipps openmutual net>]

Kurt,
hi..sorry haven't been communicating much. Currently in Italian
Riviera (San Remo)...just started looking for property in this
area.

Will get back to hacking once more settled er...that means have
a house of some sorts !.

Not out of loop yet - really want to look at getting critical
chain support (i.e. combination of ALAP scheduling plus adding
task buffers which planner would watch).

The Windows version 0.13 is a very nice move, though it has
some quirky bugs (as attached) which people probably already
have entered into bugzilla. My email/Web access is primative
via cafes so not too much time to browse at my leisure when I have
3 kids to keep from trashing wherever we are at.

Planner in Windows could be one of those nice litle cross-platform
apps that us dual-universe people use like GIMP or Ethereal.

Rgds,
Lincoln



Kurt Maute wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to let you all know that I'm working with Richard's coaching
> right now to fill the role of Planner Maintainer. 
>
> My immediate goals are to work a few patches, and also get
> a wish list for Planner v0.14 up on the Imendio developer site so we
> have some direction and goals to reach for our next release.  If anyone
> would like to have a look at the current bug list and call out their
> favorites to be included in the target list, that would be great.  Keep
> in mind, that for this release I think we should concentrate on
> strengthening basic functionality and patching bugs rather than
> implementing earth shattering improvements.
>
> Here's the current list of bugs:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=planner&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=anywords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
>
> Right now I'm working on:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305801
> which is nearly done, and next:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140561
>
> Some other favorites:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134383
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314480
Planner for Windows version 0.13.0
==================================

31st of Month Calender Bug
--------------------------

In the default calender Where the 31st
of a month is on a non-working day i.e.
by default Saturday or Sunday, it is shown
as "working" and not "non-working".

When the 31st of ANY month is set to non-working then 
this upsets the calendaring and if you check the 
resultant XML .planner file after a save then you'll find
a line as such,

       <day date="19700101" type="day-type" id="1"/>

>From experience is this start-of-unix era date is a sign
that Planner has borked and all sorts of weird stuff can 
happen.

File Launch out of home directory
---------------------------------
Planner For Windows is installed in \Program Files\Planner
If the executable is launched from any other directory
other than that as its working directory then it opens
with a blank aplication frame. This happens when the app
can't find all the right libraries (on Linux too).
If you 'cd' to the install directory then it's OK.

This also affects .planner file associations.

Maybe it would also be nice to install under \Program Files\Imendio Planner\
but that's Imendio's decision.

Day out by 1 in Gantt and Resource Usage
----------------------------------------
When you zoom in on the Gantt or resource usage then the
actual day shown is out by 1 i.e. the week starts on Tuesday
and thus, in my example, the 4th of October 2005 is shown as 
a Wednesday and not the expected Tuesday.

Adding New Calendar
-------------------
Adding a new calendar I've noticed the following bugs,

- Unable to set a time of 00:00 - 24:00 i.e. a whole day.
It reduces this to 00:00 - 23:59 which is kind of correct except 
that the default calendar uses 08:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00.
Which should it be ? should we use the last minute of the
end hour or the hour ?

When a new calendar is added as a new time then the 
working time is a bit messy - need to describe this in full.
The GUI is a bit untidy with the cursour focus being mistaken for
non-working time. Maybe some sort of BOLD or underline or similar.