Project management was one of the topics that David listed as a possible task at the upcoming hackathon. I am interested in that topic and am wondering how many others are. I would like to start a thread here to capture what project management means to the community. Here are some of my topics to comment on:
0. OVERALL GOALS - Is it to be a general project manager or an OFBiz specific one? 1. DESIGN - to what extend does the app capture the design. Does it read controller.xml, services.xml, widget, etc. files? For what purpose? One thought is to do some validation of what files are there and what ones are missing? 2. GENERATION - is there a reason to try to generate any of the structure? 3. TESTING - should the project manager be a place from which to run tests? 4. TASK MANAGEMENT - should the app try to duplicate xplanner? 5. TIE IN TO BILLING - should it create invoices from completed tasks? 6. VERSION CONTROL - to what extent should the project manager keep track of versions? of the tests? 7. ACTIVITY DOCUMENTATION - keep a history of notes, emails, test results... ? 8. ??? -Al
