[plug] Time & Task Management Tool

[John Breen]

A joint project sounds good to me.

I have Apache and PostgreSQL on my Linux box at the moment.  I'm trying
to get Oracle 8, or eventually setup mySQL.  The PERL scripting should
be fairly simple.  I only said Oracle, 'cause I know it's got a web
server which lets you program PL/SQL directly (sort of), and 'cause it's
what I use at work (I'm an Oracle developer).

I actually have some of my final year project from uni. last year
(project management software, called PMS), in which I hold joint
copyright, so I can base work on that although it needs some mods to fit
into a "real world" environment.

Anyways, a get-together/chat would be cool sometime, if you can manage
it.

I live in Yangebup, work in Kwinana and don't have a car, so that might
place some restrictions on things.  But feel free to call me if you
want.  My work number's in the sig (right at the bottom), and I don't
object (too much) to being called at work.

Cheers,

John Breen



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Trevor Phillips [SMTP:phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 1 June 1999 11:29
> To:	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] Time & Task Management Tool
> 
> John Breen wrote:
> > 
> > what exactly do you mean time & task management?  are we talking the
> > full gantt charts (we had gnatt charts at uni), or just a reasonably
> > simple interface/
> 
> Simple and Powerful. ^_^
> "gantt" or "gnatt" ?? I don't know the specifics, coz we've never had
> to
> do this before (Uni work environments being pretty casual; it ain't
> the
> pay we work here for -_^).
> 
> Basically there's all this talk of accountability, and so we need to
> track what we do, which means recording what we do, how long it took
> (say, to a granularity of 15 minutes), etc ...
> That way, you can look at someone's work, and see where their time is
> going.
> 
> It makes sense from a resource management view (which is what they're
> after), and I can envisage a product to do it; but I haven't found it
> yet.
> 
> It's also handy if such a task log can reference other data-sources
> describing the objects/resources involved.
> 
> In summary:
>   - Task log (I did this when)
>   - Task list (This is what I have to do and time estimates)
>   - Resource data (When I did this, it was related to these resources)
> 
> I think the product itself could be kept fairly simple, and versatile,
> and then the configuration and back-end expanded to suit a particular
> work environment.
> 
> > I would imagine there would need to be a fairly simple database
> backend
> > (perhaps Oracle, if I ever get a copy...?), with a web server and
> some
> > CGI sitting on top of it.  shouldn't take _too_ long....
> 
> My view precisely, except I'd develop with MySQL (tho the Uni is
> Oracle), and make it a FastCGI or Apache Module (Perl). ^_^
> 
> > I'd like to look at developing something, and have been meaning to
> for
> > ages, but timeframe might be restrictive....
> 
> Perhaps we could do a joint-project?? ^_^
> 
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