Re: [Planner Dev] Re: Simple patch for %complete

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

David Sundstrom wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> One item we need to see over time is how a project is progressing.
> The Gantt chart shows this, but we'd like to see a column in the
> tasks table that shows the percent-complete value for each task.
>
> The patch below does this.  Sorry for some extra lines of context,
> I reformatted the file to have consistent indentation in emacs.  I
> could send the entire file if needed.

It looks good, but could you please resend it as an attachment? (It 
seems to be inlined so some of the lines are broken by line breaks). 
Also please make sure you generate the diff against the CVS version, 
since the stylesheet has been changed since the latest release.

> Please let me know if there is some other channel through which I
> should submit enhancements or fixes.

This list is perfect :)

> Another item I'd like to work on is the reporting of the project
> duration.  The current report displays the total elapsed time from
> start to finish, assuming a start time of 00:00.  In software
> development we prefer to think of tasks in terms of "man-days" or
> days of effort with a nominal value of 8 hours per day.

Actually, during run-time, planner keeps track of the "work start", in 
addition to start. Work start is the first time with work scheduled for 
a task, so it would be 08:00 for example instead of 00:00. We should 
save this value in the saved files so it can be used in the HTML 
generation. It would be a simple fix, just save the value and add a 
transformation to the Planner 0.11-export filter to strip it out.

This should help getting correct durations for reports.

 > While I've got your attention, another think I'd like to fix is
> to add default actions to the dialog boxes in planner, so that
> pressing <enter> applies the default action (usually "OK").  I 
> assume this is a straight-forward fix that would make the GUI
> behavior consistent with other dialogs under gnome.

Yes, I couldn't agree more. I actually changed the Save as dialog last 
weekend :) Patches for more dialogs would be appreciated and a simple 
way to get into planner hacking :)

Regards,
Richard

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