From: Anthony Lander <anthonylander@yahoo.com>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: TaskJuggler 3, revisited
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 09:00:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F75A62E0-D2EE-40C1-9E39-0CB40D576B27@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinFzkNATY7YGKVdYRCcX=2TWV6fP=G3NKbTFYDg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi John,
On 10-Oct-8, at 9:24 PM, John Hendy wrote:
> I'm coming up on some serious need for a project manager. I really
> only need gantt chart creation at this point. I strongly dislike the
> Qt interface and the need to use that if one wants to get a gantt
> chart output from the process. I would much prefer being able to
> design my html charts, print them as PDFs or take screenshots and
> embed them in presentations, send them to others, etc. (as per tj3).
I am roughly in the same boat as you are. I installed tj2 because the
tk3 manual says it is still unstable, but it's not an ideal solution
for me, as I have everything running on a mac, with tj2 running in an
ubuntu virtual machine (because of the Qt requirement).
..and in addition, I found that the exporter for tj2 - which does 90%
of what I need - was none the less missing a couple of features, so I
started adding them. Specifically I fixed:
- The project node was confused with the top task node.
I changed it so that the project gets its own node. Needed because...
- The project now respects an end date or a duration specified on the
project node
- I made the TODO state export as a flag so that you can use it to
filter reports
(eg generate a pending tasks or an in-progress tasks report)
- There was no way to easily add reports or other globals, besides
customizing
variables, so I added a globals and reports node.
- There was no way to handle taskjuggler features that the exporter
doesn't know
about, like scenarios. I fixed this by making a :TJ: drawer, into
which you can
dump any taskjuggler code you like (on any node), so that even if
the exporter
doesn't support a feature you want, you can still make it work from
org-mode.
I've only just got this working, and I haven't written a single line
of documentation for it, except for code comments.
> - is there any progress on an exporter for tj3?
My original thought was to post my changes here as a patch, to be
tested and hacked on by the group. Maybe it would be smarter to just
change it into a taskjuggler3 exporter? I just looked through "moving
from 2 to 3" section of the taskjuggler manual. On first glance, it
looks like the semantic changes won't bother the exporter, and that
the syntactic changes are relatively minor. So I am willing to give it
a whirl.
Given the foregoing, two questions for the group:
1. Is anyone interested in the changes I've made for tj2? I
unfortunately don't have time to document them, except in point form
as above, but I am happy to put together a patch and send it to the
list for others to bang away on.
2. Carsten, would you be interested in these changes, and/or a
taskjuggler3 exporter?
Thanks,
-Anthony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-09 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-09 1:24 TaskJuggler 3, revisited John Hendy
2010-10-09 11:04 ` Detlef Steuer
2010-10-09 19:25 ` John Hendy
2010-10-14 6:24 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-18 14:54 ` Christian Egli
2010-10-18 17:46 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-09 13:00 ` Anthony Lander [this message]
2010-10-18 14:52 ` Christian Egli
2010-10-18 15:45 ` Louis Turk
2010-10-18 16:55 ` Anthony Lander
[not found] ` <98BDDE23-2AA0-4B2A-B089-688F7BC46A49@yahoo.com>
2010-10-19 9:29 ` Christian Egli
[not found] ` <0EBF5950-179C-44CC-958C-EB9CF06A44AF@yahoo.com>
2010-10-28 7:28 ` Christian Egli
2010-10-29 15:07 ` Christian Egli
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