Forum OpenACS Development: Re: dotWRK: Project Manager

Nick, please do so. I hate for us to be duplicating each other's work. I was planning on using the content repository as well, so I look forward to looking at your code.

I'd like to suggest we merge our code together. It would be better if we determine what's good about each one, and merge them together, rather than running off in slightly different directions.

My progress report:

I've been working on the organizations package, which I think we should use to model the organizations associated with a project. I wrote a simple UI, and fixed a few bugs in the data model. It looks like a good data model -- I think Jon did a good job with it. If we build on that, plus ref-itu, telecom-number, and postal-address, we'll have that portion of our data model done for us.

I've started looking at workflow, and how to integrate it into the project-manager package. It doesn't seem to be that easy of process.

More soon.

There are a couple of ways we could merge the code.

If you ask for write permissions on the project-manager directory, you could download project-manager, make the improvements (adding in the content repository and your hierarchical project view pages, for example), and then commit the work yourself.

If there are any things to discuss of which way to go designwise, we can discuss it here.

I think you need to ask Don or Peter for permission to the CVS contrib/project-manager directory.

We don't need to work about upgrade scripts until we get to alpha, in my opinion.

Does that sound good?

Let's coordinate a little more on our design of this as well. I want to make sure we take the best of both of our designs, or even better, come up with designs better than both of ours 😊

That sounds good Nick. Let me know if you have any questions or I can help out in any way. I'll post here if I do any further coding, like adding in Tasks or anything like that. That way we won't step on each other's feet.

Have you taken a look at my very very primitive UI mockups? I'd love some feedback on them, and some better designs 😊

Status update on project-manager:

Nick is working on adding use of the content repository to the project-manager. I believe he said he'll be done with that this or next week (I don't remember which).

I'm working on another project until then. Once he has added in the content repository code, I'll start working on adding in Tasks.

We would welcome some more coders, if anybody else is able to contribute. Currently, most of our work is around the data model.

Has anybody else added workflow to any packages besides the bug-tracker? I'm curious what other people's experiences have been. So far, despite Lars' excellent documentation, it looks pretty complicated. If I wade deeply into it, I'll start posting real questions.

Would it be hard to add workflow later?