RE: [mylar-dev] Planning

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

I couldn't agree more about "making the issue tracker, project management,
and development work together".

What Mylar currently provides into this mix is the task activity, exposed in
the experimental Task Activity view.  This task activity is definitely
relevant to share in a team context, and may task/project management tools
provide time tracking facilities (e.g. JIRA, Trac, option in Bugzilla).
What we are focusing on for 1.0 is getting the time tracking to be more
accurate, and improving the way it is exposed for the purpose of personal
planning.  But we should keep this discussion open since this could be an
item that's on the table post 1.0.  Note that I posted some releted comments
on:


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jimisola Laursen
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:20 AM
> To: mylar-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mylar-dev] Planning
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This discussion might be slightly of topic for Mylar, but I think that
> it's
> a good place to start.
> 
> Are there any future plans for the planning part of Mylar? And if so,
> what?
> 
> As a developer I come to do more and more of my work in Eclipse. That is,
> not only development but also documentation (we use DocBook) for example.
> 
> All projects have the problem of synchronizing elapsed time with estimated
> time. With the Planning functionality in Mylar I am actually able to keep
> better track of this.
> However, to my knowledge it seems to be on user level whereas it would be
> REALLY interesting if it could be summed up for developers of the whole
> project.
> I think it would be of great benefit to any project leader and since the
> developers do it anyway it won't be "extra work".
> 
> It would be very nice if Mylar's information could be reported back to "a
> central time tracking facility" manually by the user or automatically,
> perhaps scheduled once every 6h.
> This "time tracking facility" could of course be the issue tracker if it
> handles it. Otherwise it would have to be something else, a project tool
> for
> example.
> 
> The reason why I am bringing this up is that at work we have been
> struggling
> with this.
> If we use (Gnome) Planner or even Microsoft Project we can't synchronize
> tasks including time information with e.g. Bugzilla and Jira.
> 
> A dream would be for the developer using Maven to report "back in" and a
> "project management tool" would have update-to-date task status (including
> elapsed time of it), task dependencies etc.
> Talking to Jason van Zyl I know that he in addition to our idea of
> wrapping
> Mylar's Tasks API for Maven's issue management API he also has an idea
> about
> a project management API.
> 
> Have yet to know exactly what he has in mind, but hopefully he will have a
> proposal available soon.
> 
> Starting to wonder if not Maven, Mylar and Eclipse Process Framework
> Project
> (EPF) might have something here...
> I should clearify that I am a newbie on project management and processes,
> but it's seems reasonable that there are some commonalities (right word?).
> 
> So, why this post? As I wrote initially I primarily wonder what plans
> Mylar
> has for Planning.
> I also, wonder what other people think. Am I/we on the right track
> thinking
> in terms of making issue tracker, project management and development
> environment "work together"?
> 
> Regards,
> Jimisola
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