Re: [taskjuggler] What's the recommended way to define holydays?

From: Chris Schlaeger (cs_at_suse.de)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 10:56:24 CEST


From: Chris Schlaeger <cs@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 10:56:24 +0200
Message-Id: <200305051056.25426.cs@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [taskjuggler] What's the recommended way to define holydays?

On Thursday 01 May 2003 23:35, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
> Chris Schlaeger wrote:
> >>Is there any way to do this?
> >
> > The far better alternative is to define a shift that only has one working
> > hour per week.
>
> Thanks a lot! - sounds like a very reasonable approach.
>
> Meanwhile, another question came up that I couldn't solve by looking
> into the docs (sorry if it sounds stupid, but this is the first time
> I'm trying TaskJuggler):
>
> What is the recommended way to define "holydays"? - Shall I nest the
> resources so the whole working staff inherits a "vacation" attribute -
> or is there a better way?

You can use "vacation" at global scope as well. If you do that before the
resource declaration, all resources inherit the global vacations.

> BTW: Though I'm not done yet with trying out TaskJuggler I'd like
> to congratulate everyone who was involved in its implementation -
> it's the first project management software I found that has a decent
> user interface... one for non-mentally-challenged people, that is... :-)

Thanks!

> The only significant negative thing I found so far about it is the
> somewhat troublesome installation of the GANTT diagram generator... so
> many prerequisites to search & install... and why does a simple command
> line tool require a bombastic GUI library like qt?

Klaas is working on a Qt version of the GANTT chart generator. That should
reduce the prerequisites a lot. And Qt is much more than just a GUI library.

Chris

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