Re: Managing the ToDo list
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
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