From: Chris Schlaeger (cs_at_suse.de)
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 19:53:39 CET
From: Chris Schlaeger <cs@suse.de> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:53:39 -0700 Message-Id: <200503071153.43672.cs@suse.de> Subject: [taskjuggler-devel] TaskJuggler 2.1 released to public
TaskJuggler 2.1 Released to public
March 7, 2003
The TaskJuggler Team releases the first version of their leading
OpenSource Project Management Software that includes graphical user
interfaces to enter the project data and inspect the resulting project
details.
After more than 12 month of development the team is happy to announce
the next stable release of TaskJuggler, the most sophisticated OpenSource
project management tool. TaskJuggler 2.1 features two new front-end programs
and numerous new features that make the program even more versatile.
TaskJuggler was first publicly released in March 2002 and has offered
numerous users already a sound alternative to MS Project and other
project management tools. TaskJuggler is OpenSource Software released
under the GNU General Public License (Version 2).
TaskJuggler 2.1 new features and improvements:
* TaskJuggler now has a nice face. Beside the command lime application
'taskjuggler', you can now use 'TaskJuggler' or 'ktjview2' as a graphical
user interface to enter and schedule your projects.
* New optimizer that achieves much better resource selection resulting in
shorter overall project times.
* Passive resources like meeting rooms, machines and the like, that do not
contribute to the effort of a task can now be modeled by setting their
efficiency to 0.0.
* Added critical path analyzer. Each task is rated and the rating can be
listed in the reports.
* New task state added. When a task is not finished by the planned end date,
it now marked as late.
* Task dependency specifications (depends or precedes can now have optional
gap specification. It is possible to specify the gap in calendar time
(gapduration) or working time (gaplength).
* The speed of report generation has been significantly improved. This is
especially true for reports that make use of complex filter functions.
* Added status and statusNote to XML reports.
* Added some missing properties to the documentation. Mainly the sorting
criteria were missing.
* Fixed a memory leak during XML report generation.
* Fixed scheduling of nested task that had an external dependency and an
inherited start/end date.
* Limits of resource allocations with multiple alternatives are now correctly
handled. The limits were applied to each individual resource instead of to
the whole allocation.
* The task priority is now always properly respected. Due to a bug in the
scheduling algorithm a heavy mixture of ALAP and ASAP tasks with various
levels of priorities, ALAP tasks were treated more favorable then they
should have been treated. This fix can drastically reduce the scheduling
speed when you have a heavy mixture of ALAP and ASAP tasks with varying
priorities.
* The error checking and reporting of logical expressions has been
drastically improved.
* The reports are now generated relative to their definition file and no
longer relative to the current working directory where you started the
program.
For more information about TaskJuggler visit the web site at
http://www.taskjuggler.org.
The software is available for free download at
http://www.taskjuggler.org/download.php. It should compile on most
Unix or Linux systems. RPM packages for SuSE Linux are available as
well.
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