[PLUG] Latest openproject not working...

michael michael at robinson-west.com
Thu Mar 15 15:01:17 UTC 2018


On 2018-03-15 09:52, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, michael wrote:
> 
>> I'm not opposed to paying for support, but it's unfortunate that this 
>> is
>> Europe centric and also I need help with the community edition which 
>> is
>> probably just fine for the company I work for in Minnesota.
> 
> Michael,
> 
>   Is there a community mail list or web forum? If so, there should be 
> no
> cost for subscribing and asking for help there.
> 
>> Maybe openproject is the wrong project management tool.
> 
>   There are at least two other F/OSS PM packages (information from
> SlackBuilds.org):
> 
> GanttProject - free tool for project scheduling and management
> 
> GanttProject is GPL-licensed (free software) Java based, project
> management software that runs under the Windows, Linux and Mac OSX
> operating systems.
> 
> It features a Gantt chart for project scheduling of tasks, and doing
> resource management using resource load charts. It has a number of
> reporting options (MS Project, HTML, PDF, spreadsheets).
> 
> and
> 
> TaskJuggler is project management software for serious project 
> managers.
> It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the
> first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during
> project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planning, risk
> and communication management.
> 
> TaskJuggler provides an optimizing scheduler that computes your project
> time lines and resource assignments based on the project outline and 
> the
> constraints that you have provided. The built-in resource balancer and
> consistency checker offload you from having to worry about irrelevant
> details and ring the alarm if the project gets out of hand.
> 
> The flexible as-many-details-as-necessary approach allows you to plan
> your project as you go, making it also ideal for new management 
> strategies
> such as Extreme Programming and Agile Project Management.
> 
>   There's also Trac which is commonly used:
> 
> Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software 
> development
> projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software 
> project
> management. Our mission is to help developers write great software 
> while
> staying out of the way.  Trac should impose as little as possible on a
> team's established development process and policies.
> 
> Pygments is optional (provides syntax highlighting).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Rich
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Appreciate the help Rich.  OpenProject is Germany based, but there
is a community forum apparently if I can figure out how to use it...

These GPL'ed alternatives are worth looking into, unfortunately I have
lost at least 19-20 feature/bug entries with OpenProject CE giving me
errors.



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