[kplato] [Planner Dev] Planner maintainership

[Raphael Langerhorst]

Am Donnerstag 20 Oktober 2005 22:10 schrieb Martin-Éric Racine:
> to, 2005-10-20 kello 22:03 +0200, Raphael Langerhorst kirjoitti:
> > 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
>
> Add Open Office.  They are developing a project management application
> to be included in upcoming releases of the 2.0 productivity suite.

Can you give me a link to that one? (I am not aware of OOo 2.0 providing such 
a component) ... just checked, ... no, it does not provide one, at least not 
in 2.0.

>
> It would be a good idea to discuss with the OASIS group to come up with
> a unified DTD for project management XML files, the same way we already
> have for text documents and spreadsheets. Presentation files are next.

The spec already covers presentations - KPresenter already implemented it.

In fact one of the KOffice developers is a member of the OASIS OpenDocument 
TC. He's aware of the possibility of a project management specification and 
willing to bring it in. We just need to come up with a good spec. The main 
point is that first we should work out what file format works and implement 
it and then bring it to the committee. This way we can make sure that the 
suggested spec is also usable. I'm willing to participate in creating such a 
spec. If anyone wants to join this effort then great, I'm very happy with 
this :)

The other thing I see is that the spec already has 700+ pages! So I also want 
to make sure that the specification does not get "overloaded". Still, 
providing a clean and suitable specification for project management is 
certainly a good thing as it's certainly commonly used - probably not as much 
as text or spreadsheets, but still. And it belongs into the "office" domain.

So the first step would be to get together and create a clean file format in 
the first place. If we think the file format is fine then we can forward it 
to the OASIS TC.

Best wishes,
-- 
Raphael Langerhorst
http://raphael.g-system.at/blog