Calligra Plan: Schedule Overbooking

Victor Aprea victor.aprea at wickeddevice.com
Mon Feb 1 16:01:38 GMT 2016


Shucks, that's disappointing... so if I may be so bold, what's the best
choice these days for an open source equivalent of MS Project?

Regards,
Vic

Victor Aprea // Wicked Device
T: @vicatcu <http://twitter.com/vicatcu/>

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Maxime. Haselbauer <
maxime.haselbauer at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From my experience:
> Calligra plan is neither working nor actively developed. If you are trying
> it for the purpose of trying, continue (and post bugs)
> If you are using it, then quit !
> The algorithm for planification suffer lots of bugs, (the mechanism behind
> the scene is simply wrong)
> I remember that  I identified several bugs which at the beginning I
> thought were due to me "not using it right"
> I have never managed to get it work (unless you do a very simple project
> with 1 or 2 task) , so honestly don't waste your time with that
>
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> 2016-01-30 0:09 GMT+01:00 Victor Aprea <victor.aprea at wickeddevice.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm just getting my feet wet with Calligra Plan, and I'm liking it so
>> far. Kudos to the devs! I've got a question on the Schedule calculation
>> though, and I'm hoping someone out there can give me a nudge in the right
>> direction. I created a resource-loaded schedule with one Resource, then I
>> made a new Schedule, and I chose "Avoid" for the "Overbooking" field, then
>> I click "Calculate."
>>
>> When I go to the "Resource Assignments (Gantt)" view, hough, my one
>> resource nevertheless appears to be overbooked (i.e. there are sequences of
>> red blocks in the Gantt chart for that Resource and the stacked assignments
>> exceed availability of the resource in those periods), and the project
>> certainly fits well within the stated start and end dates of the main
>> project. So i can't imagine that the overbooking is really "unavoidable."
>> Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong here or misunderstanding?
>>
>> FWIW my system config is:
>> Ubuntu 14.04LTS x64
>> Plan Version 2.8.1
>> Using KDE Development Platform 4.13.3
>> [Installed via Synaptic Package Manager]
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Vic
>> T: @vicatcu <http://twitter.com/vicatcu/>
>>
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