From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Multiple users (team/org[anization]-wide task management) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:14:16 +0200 Message-ID: <89ce701026c7d3ba673c2df913f2a266@science.uva.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYotI-0002HK-VM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:14:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYotI-0002H2-66 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:14:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYotI-0002Gz-2G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:14:20 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IYotH-0006uD-Nj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:14:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Scott Jaderholm Cc: org-mode I don't currently share an org-mode files with others, but it seems to me that you can very easily use CVS or something similar. Then every user can work on their own copy of the same file. If everyone sticks to his/her region in the file, merging will be very easy. Plain text does have its advantages. - Carsten On Sep 21, 2007, at 17:00, Scott Jaderholm wrote: > Hi Org Users, > > Does anyone use org-mode with multiple users? Do you just locate an > org file on a shared drive? Don't you have problems with only one > person being able to access the file at a time? > > It's wonderful to be able to use org-mode individually, but when you > work in a team environment it would be really nice to all be on the > same system where you can assign tasks to others, act on tasks > assigned by others, and review tasks assigned to others. > > One problem is, if the team can't use org-mode, then you can only use > org-mode in addition to whatever the team chooses, and often only with > some redundant work. > > Does anyone have an idea how org-mode could work in a large team > environment without needing to add a ton of client-server code to > org-mode? > > Or, if you've seen excellent task management software for larger > groups that you highly recommend I'd love to hear about that as well. > > Thank you, > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > -- Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477