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June 2002

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[Twisted-Python] Proposal: Make tax default, tap optional
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

XML pickles have many benefits over taps, and the only issues they have is not support 1.5 and 2.2 new-style classes. I suggest we make them the default - a tap file is *much* less useful than a tax.

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[Twisted-Python] Regarding customer support...
by Jason Asbahr June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

Given some of the chats I've had with Glyph regarding bug tracking, customer support, and project management in Twisted, here's a nice overview article that provides some concrete definitions and feature descriptions for each. Note the "Workflow Management" paragraph where the author claims that the above mentioned systems are instances of Workflow Management and a system built around workflow management abstractions could be 'trivially' used to develop the others. http://linas.org/linux/pm.html Looking at the numerous examples of partial implementations of these various systems out there, it seems that it is easy to start one of these projects, but hard to get it to the point where it is actually useful (and I'm specifically looking at project management here). Apparently there was a project manager called Xen for Zope, but it seems dead now. But here are two interesting bits of code that could be incorporated into a Twisted-based project manager -- PyGantt, which take an XML-formatted project description and generates an HTML Gantt chart; and an O'Reilly article that describes something similar with Piddle. http://www.logilab.org/pygantt/ http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/05/31/piddle.html PyGantt is neat because it could be modified to generate hyperlinked project task titles that would go to a task description dialog (or page). Dates could also be hyperlinked for editing. The XML part could be factored out into import/export, and the project description could be instead accessed from project-tree and task-node instances in Twisted. Having a way to represent "user stories" and "use cases" as task nodes would be cool. Then Roark could (ahem, when I get time to help Matt work on it) be used to create and edit use cases and other modeling entities and the task manager could be used to schedule and track progress on them. Cheers, Jason

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