On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:27:59AM -0400, Chris Nelson wrote: > > Greg Troxel wrote: > > 2. Task A is composed of tasks B and C. A's estimated time is the > > total of B's and C's. > > > > This makes sense, and I think it would be good to have support for > > this independent of a gantt plugin. > > Yes. I agree. It would be a nice piece of separate functionality that > a Gantt plugin could require. Shall we call it CompositeTicket for the > purposes of discussion?
I've always like SubTasks, but nomenclature aside, its functionality that I've wanted for a long time (or more correctly, that other people have repeatedly asked for). Ideally, I'd like to see this in core, but since I know that's unlikely, at least as its own plugin that other plugins could consume. > > nit: Task A might have hours for A, in addition to subtasks B and C. > > You might want to ban this by policy, but it makes sense for some > > people. > > If A is do B and C and spend time coordinating them, I'd argue that that > coordination is task D. (Though I admit that time might be concurrent > with A and B. Maybe the solution is to pad tasks B and C for the > management overhead in coordinating them.) But I really wouldn't want > to have time in a task that's decomposed into other tasks. > > > > In the requirements, it's not clear to me if the scheduling is > > supposed to be resource aware or not. ... > > That's a good question. As long as it's isolated in a plugin and not > tangling up the core, I don't know that it's a bad thing that the Gantt > plugin is resource aware. Or maybe there's a Resource Leveling plugin > that requires the Gantt plugin. (And a Project Management package that > bundles TimingAndEstimation, MasterTicket, CompositeTicket, Gantt, and > Resource.) > > > > 3. Tasks A and B start at the same time > > 4. Tasks A and B must end at the same time > > > > I don't think this is realistic from the reality point of view. > > I have an associate who's a certified project planner and he couldn't > come up with examples of those uses either, though he confirmed that > they are considered valid to project management weenies. Weighing in on this discussion late, I haven't used the GanttPlugin but am very interested in time-tracking via Trac. I co-wrote the TracHours plugin in response to user-critiques of the TimingAndEstimation plugin. Still, the latter is more mature and TracHours still lacks much functionality. I would love to see a definitive solution to time-tracking in Trac and am willing to contribute what I can in terms of expertise (and less so in time, unless it becomes an organizational priority again) to this end. Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
