Re: [Planner] Planner Maintainership

["M. Franco" <max-lists ycom ch>]

Hi,

Nice to read some news from you.
And glad you're settling down in my native country.

Take your time, but not too much ;)

Max

Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 18:31 +0100, Lincoln Phipps a écrit :
> 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
> > 
> pièce jointe document plein texte (planner-windows-bug-0.13.0.txt)
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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