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Subject:    Re: [kplato] Re: OASIS Format for KPlato and Project Management in
From:       Mark Tombs <mtombs () chello ! se>
Date:       2004-10-27 17:56:39
Message-ID: 200410272015.58468.mtombs () chello ! se
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On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14.39, zander@kde.org wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:27:42PM +0200, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:13, zander@kde.org wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:05:26PM +0200, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > another thought (since it's so on-topic for the rest of KOffice).
> > > > Is there any intention to create an OASIS specification for
> > > > project management apps?
> > >
> > > Good idea; but nobody actually started this.
> > > It certainly is possible.
> >
> > OK, is there a time frame for this?
>
> Hmm?  I don't understand the question.
> Each OASIS specification is seperate; you can't hichhike on the WPs
> definition IIRC.
> If you can specify what you mean maybe David can answer since he's the
> actual contact for the WPs specification.
>
> > > > Then maybe TaskJuggler (and Mr. Project??) could also switch to a
> > > > standard OASIS format... (probably I'm just day-dreaming, but
> > > > still, it would be possible)
> > >
> > > Sure; there is nothing stopping you but time :)
> >
> > time... exactly...
>
> You need a taskmanager to schedule time, right? :P
>
> > anyway, I read a bit more about TaskJuggler and I think it could be
> > perfectly used for importing/exporting. AFAICS TaskJuggler is meant
> > to create project plans out of text input, etc. and can export stuff
> > to HTML and XML, which are both things (??) KPlato is still lacking
> > and thus these two applications are not THAT different than I thought
> > in the beginning and they might be complementary in many areas, which
> > is useful ;)   (also, we could sum up developer time....)
>
> I have no knowledge of TaskJuggler except that I heard the current
> maintainers discussing possible integration.  But as far as I know nothing
> happened just yet.
> Feel free to look through the archives of both lists.
>
> Please note that while I coded the initial classes and structures, I have
> not touched the code in ages and Shaheed and Dag are the last ones to
> actually maintain the application.
>
> That said; I'm pretty sure that you can follow up on the integration
> issues without to much of a problem.
> The OASIS stuff is probably going to take more coordination, and I doubt
> the registration is free, so a much more in depth knowledge of the content
> and the alternative solutions would be something i suggest before you
> actually start any initiative.

Not really related to this thread, but I work with an 'enterprise portfolio 
management' system from a major vendor. I am also a KDE user and would love 
to integrate kplato with the system in question... The majority of the system 
is web based, but it uses XML and SOAP to send project information to the 
project scheduler tool, which is currently Windows only. This is where kplato 
could come in. Just thinking out loud, it shouldn't be too hard to transform 
the XML into kplato format XML... thats what XSLT is good at, after all.

So anyway I would like to help in some way... I have done a fair bit of 
programming but sadly not c++. 

Apologies for the rambling.

thanks

Mark
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