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Marvelous! Beautimous! No really, it's a great application. I've been searching for a decent project management tool and failed to find any decent ones, so I ended up looking at heavyweight tools like SugarCRM and OpenXchange, then finally settling on EGS, which does a lot of what I need and a whole lot more I don't need... activeCollab gets even closer to my needs without any of the excess. I'd switch to it in an instant, if...
A few things that I couldn't do without are missing... some of them were mentioned in the feature requests forum, but I thought I'd sum them up in one place and maybe get some idea of the chances of these making it into the application in the near future.
- Assigning tasks to multiple people
- Start and end dates on tasks
- Progress percentage for tasks, rather than just a "done" checkmark
- Calendar display showing tasks and milestones, filterable by people
- Bug tracking (I saw the patches on the forum that add bug tracking features... very nice, but would they - or anything similar - be integrated into the app?)
- And, moving from "got to have" to "nice to have"... task dependencies, wiki integration (so a separate wiki area can be created for each project or client company... ), gantt chart (more useful for viewing project plans than a calendar)
That's it... simple, huh. TIA for any comments!
Itai
A few things that I couldn't do without are missing... some of them were mentioned in the feature requests forum, but I thought I'd sum them up in one place and maybe get some idea of the chances of these making it into the application in the near future.
- Assigning tasks to multiple people
- Start and end dates on tasks
- Progress percentage for tasks, rather than just a "done" checkmark
- Calendar display showing tasks and milestones, filterable by people
- Bug tracking (I saw the patches on the forum that add bug tracking features... very nice, but would they - or anything similar - be integrated into the app?)
- And, moving from "got to have" to "nice to have"... task dependencies, wiki integration (so a separate wiki area can be created for each project or client company... ), gantt chart (more useful for viewing project plans than a calendar)
That's it... simple, huh. TIA for any comments!
Itai
tranzparency
on Aug 4. 2006. 3:39 am
I hear you on "getting closer to my needs". I've used a number of project management suites and settled on Basecamp. Being a programmer, once I saw aC it was a no brainer for me to switch over. But alas it is still missing a lot of things I need but they are specific to me so I will be redesigning aC to work in my favor. Source Code = love at first sight.
To this point Ilija has done an amazing job building the base to what I feel will become the defacto open-source project manager. To that end there are a lot of things he's planning on some of which are included in your list.
There are a number of other things (functionality wise) that are going to be left up to the developer community to design as plugins in future releases when plugin support becomes available. I'm assuming noone living close to aC and using it daily want to sacrafice functionality for stability. And it appears Ilija is commited to stability over functionality which I value very highly.
What I can promise you is this.. Once plugin support becomes available, this system is going to explode with add-ons. I already have a bug tracker and login manager I use daily that I wrote to work with the 0.6 code base. As soon as I can I will be making them available for the community to use as plugins. As I'm sure others will be doing too.
In the mean time, jump over the feature request forum and throw your ideas in the ring. Some of which like assign tasks to multiple people and calendar display are already on the radar.
To this point Ilija has done an amazing job building the base to what I feel will become the defacto open-source project manager. To that end there are a lot of things he's planning on some of which are included in your list.
There are a number of other things (functionality wise) that are going to be left up to the developer community to design as plugins in future releases when plugin support becomes available. I'm assuming noone living close to aC and using it daily want to sacrafice functionality for stability. And it appears Ilija is commited to stability over functionality which I value very highly.
What I can promise you is this.. Once plugin support becomes available, this system is going to explode with add-ons. I already have a bug tracker and login manager I use daily that I wrote to work with the 0.6 code base. As soon as I can I will be making them available for the community to use as plugins. As I'm sure others will be doing too.
In the mean time, jump over the feature request forum and throw your ideas in the ring. Some of which like assign tasks to multiple people and calendar display are already on the radar.
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Ilija Studen
on Aug 4. 2006. 6:14 am
Plugin support will postpone work on most feature requests for about two months, but I find it really important at this point, more important than most of the feature request because it will let that request to be implemented easily in the future.
And of course: development documentation and "How to build a plugin" type of tutorials :D
And of course: development documentation and "How to build a plugin" type of tutorials :D
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forrest2828
on Aug 4. 2006. 9:19 am
tranzparency:I'm assuming noone living close to aC and using it daily want to sacrafice functionality for stability. And it appears Ilija is commited to stability over functionality which I value very highly.
Couldn't have agreed more.
Thanks, Ilija & tranzparency... I hear you on plugins being top priority now - when contributed hacks turn into formally-integrated plugins it would be much easier to decide to use them.
I'm starting to use the svn version on my intranet for myself and a friend's company... will be eagerly awaiting interesting checkins! And I'll post some feature requests... real soon now...
Itai
I'm starting to use the svn version on my intranet for myself and a friend's company... will be eagerly awaiting interesting checkins! And I'll post some feature requests... real soon now...
Itai
tranzparency
on Aug 7. 2006. 2:25 am
Ya, I'm just throwing out the hacks I'm doing as ideas toward the future. Currently I really want this functionality for my own work. But it's also lot of fun to add functionality to such a nicely designed system. I'm hoping others are playing around with the source too and designing what some day might become great plugin functionality for all of us to benefit from.
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