RE: [mylar-dev] Planning

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Note that I posted some related comments on:

111218: [discussion] sharing and awareness of task context
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=111218

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mik Kersten [mailto:beatmik@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:55 PM
> To: 'Mylar developer discussions'
> Subject: RE: [mylar-dev] Planning
> 
> 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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