Finally an urgent reason to hack on Snakeplan

[Mike Pirnat]

I discovered today that XPlanner's move/continue Task function (as
opposed to move/continue Story) does not produce a COMPLETE list of
potential target Stories... In fact, most of them are probably not
even from the same Project! This makes it very hard/impossible to
move tasks between stories.

As a stopgap, I've thrown together a little Greasemonkey script to
replace the select with a text input to manually enter the target
story id, but that's hardly ideal.

Is this finally the swift kick in the ass that we need to start
hacking on Snakeplan? I feel strangely motivated....

--
Mike Pirnat
mpi...@gmail.com
http://www.pirnat.com/

[Max Cantor]

I've been pretty frustrated by Xplanner already.  It seems like a shame to work on its replacement just when my team is starting to get into the swing of using it, but if we do this right, it might be relatively painless.  I'm all for it!

- Max Cantor
Developer, Designer & Web Specialist
(216) 539-5836
http://inspiranity.com

[Mike Pirnat]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Max Cantor <maxc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been pretty frustrated by Xplanner already.  It seems like a shame to
> work on its replacement just when my team is starting to get into the swing
> of using it, but if we do this right, it might be relatively painless.  I'm
> all for it!

That's why one high priority (once we have a basic functioning app) is
supporting the import of XPlanner's export format.

It's also why, at least for starters, I don't think we should do
anything radically different with the UI. We've already trained
people on XPlanner and gotten them excited about using it. Let's
start with providing continuity (and the highest-importance fixes like
the move/continue view) and we can evolve the UI metaphors later.