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List:       kplato
Subject:    Re: [kplato] [Planner Dev] Planner maintainership
From:       Dag Andersen <danders () get2net ! dk>
Date:       2005-10-21 7:47:05
Message-ID: 200510210947.06077.danders () get2net ! dk
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On Torsdag 20 oktober 2005 21:19, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 20 Oktober 2005 20:24 schrieb Chris Morgan:
> > I know I can't be the only one worried by the lack of
> > maintainership over the planner project.  I've thought about
> > trying to step up to help maintain it but I'd only have time to
> > contribute minor fixes, not handle full time maintainership.  I
> > looked around and found this project that appears to be quite
> > similar to Planner called TaskJuggler
> > http://www.taskjuggler.org/index.php, and also appears to be
> > actively maintained.  As much as I'm hesitant to say it, it might
> > be a time to consider merging planner with a project that is
> > still actively maintained, and redirecting users there.
> >
> > Chris
>
> Hi there,
>
> I contacted you previously to discuss standard file formats for
> project management applications:
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kplato/2004-December/000255.html
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kplato/2004-December/000257.html
>
> Now that actually Planner maintainership is a question I want to
> put out some ideas.
>
> I am currently aware of three open source project management
> applications:
>
> * Planner (Mr. Project)
> * Task Juggler - http://www.taskjuggler.org
> * KPlato - http://www.koffice.org and http://www.koffice.org/kplato
>
> The first official KPlato release is to-be-released as part of
> KOffice 1.5 early next year (probably February 2006). I'm part of
> the KOffice team and KPlato is one component I'm involved with.
>
> We are also getting involved with the Task Juggler project to
> achieve good compatibility with this project. Task Juggler and
> KPlato have quite different approaches to project management. Task
> Juggler is basically a command line utility that processes a set of
> input rules/project descriptions - the GUI is an additional
> application. KPlato, on the other hand, is a real KOffice
> component. So I don't know how well it will be possible to merge
> Task Juggler and KPlato. The goal is to have one good Project
> Management application available. KPlato, as a KOffice component
> has tremendous possibilities in terms of integration while
> TaskJuggler is more bound to be an app on its own. Supporting Task
> Juggler as a backend or external tool within KPlato is a
> possibility though. Integration is truly valuable within an office
> environment.
>
> So, I would be open to discuss merging of any (open source) project
> management applications and would be very happy if human resources
> could be brought together.
Just for the record, I'm not against merging KPlato with TaskJuggler, 
but as you noted above Raphael, the approach is very different, so 
imho it won't be a piece of cake to do, especially before release of 
1.5.
Personally, before doing anything to kplato, I would have a look/help 
out with one of the QT/KDE frontends that allready exists  to really 
get into the code.

A note on TaskJugglers fileformat: It's designed to easily be 
read/edited by humans (it's really their user interface) so imvvho I 
don't think they will ever have a native XML based format. (But maybe 
a conversion tool?)
>
> Best wishes,

-- 
Mvh,
Dag Andersen
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