[Owncloud] GANTT Charts as owncloud app? A GSoC project?

[Pascal Mages]

Am 02.03.2012 08:13, schrieb Klaas Freitag:
> On 01.03.2012 20:18, Pascal Mages wrote:
> Hi Pascal,
>
>> I would like to propose an idea which could maybe be turned into GSoC
>> project. In a collaboration project we will probably use owncloud. But
>> one piece is still missing. We need a way to display/generate GANTT
>> charts and doing thant in owncloud would be the most natural thing.
>> In short: A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart, developed by Henry
>> Gantt, that illustrates a project schedule [1].
>
>>
>> There is a free GANTT chart tool based on Javascript, CSS and HTML which
>> could provide a startig point [2] for an owncloud app.
> Sure, that would be a great addition.
>
> Where does the input for the GANTT diagrams come from? I don't think it
> makes so much sense to just display them without helping to generate
> them. How are you planning to do that?

To start with I think a simple text file would be ok. That could be 
edited with the built in text editor of ownclowd. jsGantt has an option 
to use an xml file. Later on a spezific built in editor would be great.

> For example there is the project "Taskjuggler" [4]. Its based on text
> files specifying tasks, resources and much more. ownCloud integration
> could look like this: Whenever you update a taskjuggler file on the
> ownCloud, in the background the taskjuggler task is started to schedule
> everything and the result of that is shown in ownCloud. Nice app :-)

That looks interessting as well! But it's Ruby based. Would that work 
with owncloud? My hosting provider dows not support Ruby in a standard 
environment.

>
> regards,
>
> Klaas
>
> [4] http://www.taskjuggler.org
>>
>> In the bug tracker there is actually a feature request [3].
>> Who else is interested in such an app and would help to make it happen?
>> As I'm not a developper I can't really judge how much work this would
>> mean and if it would be suitable for a GSoC project. But I would be
>> happy to provide my GANTT and end user knowlegde.
>>
>> Anyone joining in?
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart
>> [2] http://jsgantt.com/
>> [3] http://bugs.owncloud.org/thebuggenie/owncloud/issues/oc-48
>
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