From: Chris Schlaeger (cs_at_suse.de)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 18:05:44 CET
From: Chris Schlaeger <cs@suse.de> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:05:44 +0100 Message-Id: <200311101805.50906.cs@suse.de> Subject: Re: [taskjuggler-devel] Integrating taskjuggler with OpenOffice.org
Hi,
On Monday 10 November 2003 16:37, CPH wrote:
> Hi,
> Your project looks quite interesting especially as this is something
> missing from OpenOffice.org. There may be people interested in working on
> this integration as mentioned below.
> Would you be interested in assisting with this ?
I'm certainly willing to work on a better OpenOffice integration. Currently
the best we can offer is exporting CSV files for import into a spread sheet.
> Do you think that the very brief approach I mentioned below is reasonable ?
Sure, but it depends what you want to achive. TaskJuggler is a pretty
powerfull scheduling engine, but the textual input format is not everyones
darling (though it is damned powerfull if you know how to work it ;). So some
people would like to have a GUI for data input. But the biggest drawback of
TaskJuggler is the visulisation of results. The HTML reports need clever
filtering or you will loose your project. I alreay tried to add some DHTML
but this always kills one or the other browser. Klaas has started to write a
Konqueror plugin that can display the XML as Gantt charts, but has not enough
time for a full blown visualizer. So if OOo could read in TJ results and
generate nice Gantt charts and other tables, that would be a big plus.
> Also, how close is your XML to be stable enough to freeze ?
The XML (esp. the version 2) is fairly new. We don't even have a stable
release out with it. So I wanted to get some more feedback on it, before I
want to call it stable. The biggest issue is, that is is not fully complete.
The textual format has some features that the XML is missing. Mostly rarely
used stuff, but I want to add this after 2.0. You may have noticed that TJ
uses the same file format for reading and exporting data. This is true for
both the textual format as well as the XML format. The XML just lacks some
features. It is my goal to make both formats (XML and TJP) fully
interchangeable.
> And are you considering submitting this (or having it submitted) to the
> OASIS group as a standard ?
I haven't cosidered that so far. Here are some things that would be needed
first:
1) Make it a proper DTD.
2) Add missing elements.
3) Consider if it is general enough for a public standard.
3) Document it.
So there is still some work to do. The XML support is not at the top of my
prio list right now. Mostly because I haven't received much interest in this
feature and the current stuff seems to work.
TJ 2.0 is almost done. As soon as I've finished the new syntax reference in
the manual it will be released. After that I could work more on the XML
again.
Chris
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