Example/tutorial for django-project-management

[Anne aka aghisla]

Hello all,

thanks for the nice piece of software, that was what I was looking
for.
I'd suggest to add a small tutorial, and/or a fixture that allows to
play with some real-like data to understand how all the system works.
At the first glance, having to fill the portal is quite an explorative
task.
Of course I'd be happy to provide feedback on this.

thanks again,
Anne
--
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Anne_Ghisla

[Simon Morris]

Hi Anne,

Thanks for the email - This is a really good idea, I'll do some
screencasts for this.

To be honest I've been too lazy/busy to put more work into
django-project-management but getting emails saying people have tried it
out inspires me to put some more work into it

Thanks

~sm

[Anne aka aghisla]

On Sep 24, 3:37 pm, Simon Morris <moz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> Thanks for the email - This is a really good idea, I'll do some
> screencasts for this.
>
> To be honest I've been too lazy/busy to put more work into
> django-project-management but getting emails saying people have tried it
> out inspires me to put some more work into it

Thanks, that will be great.

Do you have any plans for future development? In the quest for the
perfect planner I stumbled on several interesting projects, and it can
be of benefit to integrate their functionalities into d-p-m.
I'm also doing small modifications in the code, may I send patches for
what can be ported upstream?

cheers
Anne

[Anne Ghisla]

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 14:37 +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> Thanks for the email - This is a really good idea, I'll do some
> screencasts for this.
>
> To be honest I've been too lazy/busy to put more work into
> django-project-management but getting emails saying people have tried it
> out inspires me to put some more work into it

Thanks, that will be great.

Do you have any plans for future development? In the quest for the
perfect planner I stumbled on several interesting projects, and it can
be of benefit to integrate their functionalities into d-p-m.
I'm also doing small modifications in the code, may I send patches for
what can be ported upstream?

cheers
Anne

>

> Thanks
>
> ~sm
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:27 -0700, Anne aka aghisla wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > thanks for the nice piece of software, that was what I was looking
> > for.
> > I'd suggest to add a small tutorial, and/or a fixture that allows to
> > play with some real-like data to understand how all the system works.
> > At the first glance, having to fill the portal is quite an explorative
> > task.
> > Of course I'd be happy to provide feedback on this.
> >
> > thanks again,
> > Anne
> > --
>

--
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Anne_Ghisla

[Simon Morris]

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 07:04 -0700, Anne aka aghisla wrote:
> Do you have any plans for future development? In the quest for the
> perfect planner I stumbled on several interesting projects, and it can
> be of benefit to integrate their functionalities into d-p-m.

Yes, I want to do more with it.

My list of things to do are:

* Replace the CMS component so it works with Django1.2
* Change the JSON interaction with ExtJS so it works to REST
specifications, and other people could write clients for the service
* Improve the very shaky MS Project export
* Include MS Project import

I've also seen a few Free Software projects that we could take
inspiration from... I'll definitely do more with it, it isn't finished!

> I'm also doing small modifications in the code, may I send patches for
> what can be ported upstream?

Absolutely - I'd love to take contributions

I blog occasionally about the project here
http://beerandspeech.org/blog/tag/d-pm

Thanks

~sm

[markusN]

Hi Simon,

On Sep 24, 3:37 pm, Simon Morris <moz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anne,
>
> Thanks for the email - This is a really good idea, I'll do some
> screencasts for this.
>
> To be honest I've been too lazy/busy to put more work into
> django-project-management but getting emails saying people have tried it
> out inspires me to put some more work into it

we (Anne, me) have started to patch it in order to extend it. Yet
small
changes. Would you be interested to receive them later on and fix
upstream?
Would be nice to join forces.

Cheers
Markus

--
http://gis.ambiente.fmach.it/

[Simon Morris]

Hi Markus,

> we (Anne, me) have started to patch it in order to extend it. Yet
> small
> changes. Would you be interested to receive them later on and fix
> upstream?
> Would be nice to join forces.
>

Yes, I'd love people to contribute code.

I started doing a (free) project management tool (just a hobby, won't be
big and professional like MS Project)* but the idea was to start a
community around it.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I wanted it to be a bit more complete
before people started to use it outside of my workplace (we use it to
track projects in the company I work for) but that's the thing about
projects like this - they keep getting improved time and time again.

I have 2 patches from Anne, I was going to create a branch for a Django
1.2 release, get that working and tested and release
django-project-management version 0.1

I'm really keen to put some development time into it

Did you guys get it working OK when you installed it? Can I help at all?

~sm

* I'm sure you both got the reference but just in case...
http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html