Neil Williams wrote: > The ToDo list on the main website is very brief and, personally, I find > organising and detailing tasks fiddly on the Wiki. If a particular task > needs a bit of explanation, it either needs a whole new page or it > extends the ToDo list to the point where the main page is hard to use. > > I'm experimenting with 'planner' - a Debian package that writes out a > project plan in XML and can export to HTML. > > As XML, we could save this file in SVN and export the HTML to the > website. > > The main advantages are: > 1. Hierarchical lists of tasks with sub-tasks with changeable > priorities which can be allocated to people, can include progress, > milestones and other markers.
Sounds a bit overblown with the current number of people working on it. > 2. Notes available for each task and sub-task detailing exactly what > needs to be done. > 3. HTML output of reports and status. > 4. Hide certain sub-tasks to concentrate on relevant ones. > > Disadvantages > 1. planner cannot do the export for us - the HTML > would have to be exported and committed alongside the XML. However, > in time, the XML could be used with xsltproc to generate our own > reports and pages and that can be automated. > 2. The HTML cannot seem to include links - only URL's. (Solving [1] > will solve [2] as well.) 3. It is not globally writable by everyone, which would be very useful to rope in new people. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
