Today it is exactly five years ago the incubator project to create a
project management tool for the OpenOffice.org suite started when Gil
Hauer sent a call for participation on the OpenOffice.org developer
mailing list 20 Februar 2004.
So far the progress of the project has been far less than any of the
participants have hoped for. The project doesn't have a running
prototype - not even a single line of source code.
But from time to time in the past five year there have been periodes
with activity which have created a big list of wishes and requirements
for a coming prototype, a list of Open Source project management tools,
a webpage with these information, 52 issues in the OpenOffice.org issue
control system IssueZilla and a lot of discussions on the OOPM developer
mailing list even though almost none software developers.
Gil Hauer was the first leader of the project where Claus Agerskov
shortly after the start became a co-leader. Two years ago the project
got its third co-leader Shawn Abigail. Hauer and Abigail have stepped
down here in 2009 but will still follow the project so Agerskov will be
the only project leader left - for now.
The next step is to go through some iterations of figuring out which
requirements actually are going to be developed into the first prototype
OOPM version 0.01. The first iterations has been done and can be viewed
in the spreadsheet document "Requirements from Wish List" in the
"Documents & Files" section of the OOPM website oopm.openoffice.org.
OOPM needs a project management tool to manage the project. CollabNet is
not the rigth tool and a webbased Open Source will be chosen. IssueZilla
will still be used for issues but to follow the progress OOPM needs a
better overview.
The OOPM mailing lists will change a bit too. The developer list which
currently is the most active one will be used for debating development
of OOPM. The main discussion of OOPM will be moved to the discuss
mailing list.
To enhance the communication a wiki page at OpenOffice.org Wiki site and
an IRC channel will be created within the next two weeks. The IRC
channel will be used for meetings.
As you can see there is a lot going to happen with OOPM in the near
future and all help and contributions are appreciated.
Let's create the project management tool of our dreams - let's create
OOPM for OpenOffice.org.
The most enjoyable greetings
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Claus Agerskov ###= Analyze OpenOffice.org
Project Owner ##== Requirements Project Management Tool
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