[Collaboa] time estimates

[Robert Bousquet]

Sheets http://www.sheetserver.com was my Railsday entry.  It does  
billing and time tracking for projects and I'm seriously considering  
releasing it as open source.  I currently use Collaboa for most of my  
long term projects and envision time import functionality from  
Collaboa tickets into Sheets projects via a simple web service.

This would perhaps eliminate some of the Collaboa bloat fears I'm  
hearing and provide a solution for both time accrual (Collaboa) and  
billing (Sheets). I'd rather have interoperable tools that each do  
something well because everyone has different needs for each.  Some  
people just need bug tracking, others perhaps only billing for  
graphic design, some need both.  Let's bring these two apps together  
and begin creating an suite of easily customizable apps that we need  
as developers/freelancers/entrepreneurs.

I'd love to hear what you think of this idea.  If the interest is  
there, it will definitely encourage me to finally decide to open  
source my application.

Robert Bousquet


On Feb 16, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Esad Hajdarevic wrote:

> Hi List!
>
> I think that this fear of  becoming bloatware is somewhat over- 
> careful, I think that all of the mentioned features
> (time, wiki, billing) are very useful and if implemeneted properly,  
> especially on the UI side, won't make collaboa bloatware,
> but complete product.
>
> Of course, it would be ideal to introduce a plugin system, that  
> would enable everyone to customize collaboa to their
> needs (wiki or not, subversion support or not...).
>
> Without plugins, we can decide either to keep with the very core  
> functionality of bug tracker or decide to expand into full software- 
> project-management (management in a technical sense) tool.
>
> In my ideal version, collaboa should containt the core  
> functionality, a tracker, project- and user- administration and  
> plugin management. All other feautes could
> be implemented as a plugin (wiki, time tracking, billing). Plugin  
> could even have dependencies, conflicts etc.
>
> Tom mentioned forking collaboa - does the license allow this? What  
> license does do collaboa use?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Esad
>
>
> Tom Clarke wrote:
>
>> The time functionality is already in there, with billing soon to be
>> added. Without it collaboa is pretty much useless for my purposes. if
>> there's a general feeling that it bloats the app (although I really
>> don't understand this line of argument, is linux bloated with it's
>> support of many overlapping sets of requirements?) I'm happy to fork.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>
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