RE: Re: [ jEdit-users ] Task Manager Plugin

[<sai...@ya...>]

I like the idea of the project viewer taking on the
role of a project coordinator and various plugins that
are related to project management exposing a
well-defined interface.

Views on the Task Manager:

I agree with the idea of adding a pending/done flag
for each task. I think we should also have a priority
system which we could order the tasks against. It
could act with 'folding' in that selecting Priority 1
tasks would fold away all other tasks within the
buffer, highlighting all Priority 1 tasks(either in
the buffer or in the gutter). 
Within the context of the project, the current
clickable listing should be extended for all the tasks
of all the buffers within the project or a subset of
them (perhaps by package), using a hierarchical tree
display (as previously mentioned). This listing should
have the option to order the tasks by type of task, by
priorities, by pending or done etc...
I think the plugin should be able to prepare a
structured printable report of completed and pending
tasks organised by packages and ordered by priorities.
What would also be an idea is adding timestamps for
when it was defined and when it was completed.

The other thing is defining a strict structure for the
comments in the task and differentiating between a
title and a description for the task. The title could
appear in the listing and the description as a
tooltip.

I'm not sure wether moving the comments out to
externally managed files would be a good idea. I like
the idea that, files retain their tasks encapsulated
within them for portability (Imagine someone going
through the code  that doesn't use jedit.)

I also like the idea of a QA system. We could use the
JStandard plugin to achieve this.

just a few thoughts..

I'll try to add a bit of functionality to the task
list plugin when I can...




 --- John Gellene <jge...@ny...> wrote: > > My
thoughts, speaking strictly as a user of jedit
> (as opposed to
> > developer),
> 
> >
> > If TaskList is going to be absorbed into a greater
> Project
> > management tool,
> > I'd
> > want to see a treeview of project files and
> comments :
> > - project name
> >  - foo.pl
> >   - line 32 todo: blah blah
> >   - line 43 bug: blah blah
> >  - bar.pl
> >   - line 32 question: blah blah
> >   - line 92 idea: blah blah
> >
> > filtering by keyword, so that only todo's are
> shown, etc.
> > multiline items :
> > # TODO:
> > # change widget foo to bar
> > # verify user input through HTML::Validator
> > # etc
> >
> > maybe this would end on a blank line, or have a
> keyword for end of list
> > (ODOT?).
> >
> > option to cut & paste selected/ all into buffer,
> or to prepare a
> > new buffer
> > with
> > same.
> >
> > option to mark items complete/ cancelled in
> TaskList pane. I think this
> > might
> > just be a s/TODO/DONE/.
> 
> These are all great ideas, thank you.  To clarify, I
> don't think that this
> or other project-oriented plugins should be absorbed
> in a larger plugin.  I
> think they should expose an interface that allows a
> project manager to
> execute defined actions, and it should be able to
> manipulate a set of file
> or buffer collection classes.  In the jEdit API, the
> SearchFileSet interface
> and its derived leaf classes are good candidates for
> the latter object type.
> They are simple, extensible and provide known
> targets for project related
> operations.  They are in the core code and don't
> need to be reinvented.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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Dr Saimon Moore
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