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

[Klaas Freitag]

On 04.03.2012 12:59, Pascal Mages wrote:
> 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.
Ok.
>
>> 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.
Well, Taskjuggler comes as a console app (written in ruby) that takes an 
input file and creates some output. That can be integrated in a 
specialized ownCloud app very well, but thats certainly not for the main 
ownCloud release :-)

regards,

Klaas

>> [4] http://www.taskjuggler.org