Re: Planner-list Planner Development - still active?

Matt Burkhardt <mlb-FLLCE4lY9dO/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:17:26 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.planner.user
Message-ID <1264184246.2739.102.camel@mlb-laptop>
Andre,

    I have to second that - I use it and an extremely thankful to the
guys that are working on it but would love to see some additional
functionality.

Thanks!

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 15:56 -0200, Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:53:32 +1000
> Joshua Wulf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On 01/20/2010 08:47 AM, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Joshua Wulf<[email protected]>  wrote:
> > >    
> > >> Is Planner still being actively developed? We've starting using it quite
> > >> heavily for our team (using it in Fedora), and would like to make
> > >> enhancement requests, contribute documentation, etc... We've filed a number
> > >> of bugs in the Fedora bugzilla and have had things fixed, but apparently
> > >> patches from Fedora are not being integrated upstream?
> > >>      
> > > We indeed got some patches but we lack time and manpower so we're a
> > > bit slow currently on integrating them. We're still alive. We try to
> > > do our best.
> > >
> > >    
> > Do you guys want some help?
> 
> It would be great to see Planner getting some more love. Please don't
> get me wrong: I am very grateful to Alexandre, Maurice and all others
> who strive to keep Planner alive and kicking, I know they are doing
> their best to keep up and I can only thank them for that.
> 
> Problem is that IMHO Planner is a strategic app for Linux, because it's
> the default app for project management, which is a necessity for me and
> many project managers who use Linux as their desktop. I rely on it
> heavily to plan our sprints, and it's a pity new versions take so long
> to come out, and to see some basic (annoying) bugs last for too long,
> or some usability issues that could probably be fixed without much
> effort if more manpower was available.
> 
> Again, this is not at all a complaint directed at the developers, but
> instead a "Phew! Maybe now these guys will get some help" ;-) It's nice
> to see RedHat (or anyone else for that matter) offering a hand, I hope
> it is welcome by the developers.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andre
> 



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