Don Gould wrote:
How hard would it be to automate a cron job to review all the tasks in
the database every 10 minutes and send out an email?
Do you really need to be looking for the best FOSS task management
software and then consider how to mod it to your requirement?
I've never used a web based solution in anger, but I thought this was
an interesting thread, not sure why you think it's OT.
If you find something FOSS you like and would like some help adding
automated emails, then yell out, not sure how much I can offer, but
I'd like to help.
Cheers Don
It appears there is nothing out there that can do this so I'm going to
have to grab an open-source app and "tweak" it somewhat.
Nothing is hard, Don, except that, without actually trying some of these
packages, I have no idea of whether the data in the database will be
stored in such a way as to make such a review possible.
And while that only increases the difficulty somewhat, I really can't be
bothered trying to wrangle with bad code.
Most task-management software I've looked at today seems to assume that
tasks are a daily affair and the time of day is of no importance. As
that is a fundamental difference compared to the software I require, it
may be easier to write from scratch, rather than try and bend
ill-fitting code to my dastardly purposes.
I don't want to install/support a full project-management solution yet
it appears that these sorts of apps are the only ones that include time
of day information.
Blah. Will download and take a look at some of the more complicated task
managers and see if the code is well-formed enough to easily tweak.
Cheers,
Brat.
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