Re: OASIS Format for KPlato and Project Management in general

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:13, [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:05:26PM +0200, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > another thought (since it's so on-topic for the rest of KOffice).
> > Is there any intention to create an OASIS specification for
> > project management apps?
>
> Good idea; but nobody actually started this.
> It certainly is possible.

OK, is there a time frame for this?

>
> > Or is such kind of application out of scope of
> > standard office application (then, why is KPlato part of
> > KOffice...)?
>
> Its in scope, and kplato is part of koffice since project
> management creates reports which are complementairy to
> kword/kspread. And kplato can use documents and formulas (kexi) in
> its task details screens. Lots of potential which can be used; but
> nobody is actually doing it just yet.

ACK, some of this stuff already popped up in my mind during the last 
hours..., that's why I think KPlato is definitely worth being 
developed.

>
> > Then maybe TaskJuggler (and Mr. Project??) could also switch to a
> > standard OASIS format... (probably I'm just day-dreaming, but
> > still, it would be possible)
>
> Sure; there is nothing stopping you but time :)

time... exactly...

anyway, I read a bit more about TaskJuggler and I think it could be 
perfectly used for importing/exporting. AFAICS TaskJuggler is meant 
to create project plans out of text input, etc. and can export stuff 
to HTML and XML, which are both things (??) KPlato is still lacking 
and thus these two applications are not THAT different than I thought 
in the beginning and they might be complementary in many areas, which 
is useful ;)   (also, we could sum up developer time....)

Raphael

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