Re: [openwferu-users] was: Browser Based Work Flow Diagram Tool / fluo

[John Mettraux]

OK,

I've checked in my "fluo" tool. It's only a beginning (and it could
remain only a beginning).

You can get it by doing :

svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/openwferu/trunk/fluo

Here is the README.fluo.txt :

---8<---

start with

ruby -I../openwfe-ruby/lib script/server

once it's running, head to

http://localhost:3000/fluo/view
or
http://localhost:3000/fluo/view?flow=http://localhost:3000/flow.xml

rails 1.2.2
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i686-darwin8.8.3]

--->8---

- I'm not a Rails developer (maybe not yet)
- I'm not a web designer
- I used Rails because it has those partials (and I want to know Rails)
- It is pseudo BPMN
- It's view only for now
- I'd like it to display participants as "pools" instead of "activies"
(really BPMN)
- It should not be that difficult to turn it into a web editor (in
fact I did it 3 years ago for OpenWFEja, it was called "droflo", it
was ugly, but a company made a beautiful tool based on it (but never
contributed anything back))
- The "display position in process" feature is implemented, but
doesn't work as of now
- Making it render "ruby process definitions" will not be very difficult
- I've experimented a bit with SVG but was not happy at all with text
positioning, so I reverted to plain HTML and PNG
- I'd like to implement some process folding - will be useful for
subprocesses as well
- Big question : how to let people embed that app in their Rails apps ?
- SVG would be cool for arrows

I wouldn't mind giving the reins of this sub-project to a real Rails
developer (but the workflow engine itself is my turf).

I wouldn't even mind someone coming with something better (but still
web-based, no Eclipse install), I never mind dropping useless code.

Feedback is welcome, cheers,

--
John Mettraux -///- http://jmettraux.openwfe.org

[cgramona]

I've checked it out and it looks like a good start indeed. I will be
"playing" with it and openwferu over the next few days.

I did notice that Thoughtworks introduced an new online project
collaboration tool. If this turns into an official project, it is free
to open source projects and may be useful.

[John Mettraux]

Hi CG,

2007/4/27, cgramona <cag...@cox.net>:

>
> I've checked it out and it looks like a good start indeed. I will be
> "playing" with it and openwferu over the next few days.

OK, meanwhile I'll fix the "display position" feature.

> I did notice that Thoughtworks introduced an new online project
> collaboration tool. If this turns into an official project, it is free
> to open source projects and may be useful.

I sincerely think that the tools available on the RubyForge are
sufficient. An open source project just requires a source code
repository, a mailing list, a todo tracker and a bug tracker
(sometimes people post patches). On RubyForge, activity is measured
and OpenWFEru is in the top 10 projects since a while, that is
important for the project visibility.

Looking forward your feedback and contributions, best regards,