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On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:30:43PM -0400, Ajit Deshpande wrote: >I have been on the look for such a tool for some time now. >http://linas.org/linux/pm.html has a good analysis of options. However >they all suck. I was going to start on a project to build one that sucks >a little less :) > >Besides its not unusual for large free software development projects to >roll-up their own auxilliary projects. For example Mozilla has bugzilla. >In some cases the auxilliary projects have been more successful then the >original ones, but lets not get into that right now :) > >If there is any interest in this effort, I can draw up a plan (which in >turn will involve gathering immediate requirements from gnat/skud :) and >post it here. > >Thoughts/flames? I was recently involved in an effort to write an application which was intended to be a task manager for v1, and evolve into a full project manager for v2. It turned out to be Too Hard for us; we needed much more PM theory and experience behind us than we had, and in the end we realised that it would take several developer-years to do it Right. Since we didn't have that sort of time, the project was shelved. I think we realised that anything less than near-perfect would be no better than the other things currently available, eg Keystone etc. If anyone wants to work on such a project as Ajit describes, I wish them the best of luck and will throw my weight in and tell you all the stuff we learnt when we tried, so you don't have to learn it all again for yourselves. But I really don't think it's feasible in the sort of timescales we're looking at. K. -- Kirrily Robert -- <skud@netizen.com.au> -- http://netizen.com.au/ Open Source development, consulting and solutions Level 10, 500 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Phone: +61 3 9614 0949 Fax: +61 3 9614 0948 Mobile: +61 410 664 994Thread Previous | Thread Next