Planner

Planner is the GNOME project management tool.

Planner was originally created by Richard Hult and Mikael Hallendal at Imendio. Thanks, guys, for your excellent work and continuing guidance as we work to improve on what you started.

Resources:

• Users mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/planner-list

• Developers mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/planner-dev-list

• IRC: #planner on irc.gnome.org

• Bugs & feature requests: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=planner

• Subversion repository: http://svn.gnome.org/svn/planner/trunk (browse)

• Download source code: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/planner/0.14/

• Planner for Windows: http://winplanner.sourceforge.net/ (How to build from source)

Bounties

Bounties are no longer being offered for Planner

HOWTO Documents

• Planner Installation Guide: How to install planner from source

• Planner2Timeline: How to convert a plan to timeline data.

New in the v0.14.3 Release

• Added support for version 3 of libgda, the database access library
• Added internationalization (I18N) support for HTML export
• Allow dragging of completion bar in Gantt chart
• Allow dragging of task duration in Gantt beyond the window size
• % Complete column added to task and Gantt view
• New Tango icon set contributed by Frédéric Bellaiche
• Show guide lines setting is now persistent thanks to Marie Durand
• Fixed bug: Incorrect week numbers were sometimes shown both in the UI and in exported HTML.
• Fixed bug: Project start time shifts each time a project is read from a database
• Fixed bug: Toggling fixed duration state does not immediately update task appearance in Gantt chart
• Fixed bug #332748: Row height in exported HTML is incorrect in Internet Explorer (patch by Nico de Groot)
• Fixed bug #337382: Sidebar buttons are not accessible for things like screen readers
• Fixed bug #345163: ngettext should be used to get proper translation of plural
• Fixed bug #373008: Crash when importing MS project XML
• Fixed bug #382548: Crash when undoing indent
• Fixed bug #388454: Planner hangs when cancelling HTML export
• Fixed bug #393620: Gantt header width in exported HTML is incorrect
• Fixed bug #397132: Crash on export to database
• Fixed bug #436263: Keep task selection when (un)indenting
• Fixed bug #464359: Make distcheck fails (patch by Gilles Dartiguelongue)
• Fixed bug #486990: Fixed duration tasks have incorrect duration
• Fixed bug #499090: Incorrect task cost calculation in exported HTML for tasks worked on by multiple people.

New in the v0.14.2 Release

• fix bug gnomebug:353232 - patch to raise majic priority, fixing nautilus behavior when clicking on a planner file
• fix bug gnomebug:368186 - patch to paint guide lines behind project start date rather than on top - contributed by Arthur Petitpierre
• added -Wno-return-type for compile with database enabled
• patch related to bug gnomebug:353213 - added #ifdefs to allow compile with libgda 1 or 2, up to libgda-1.9.102. Note: do not attempt to compile with libgda-1.9.103 or higher (it won't work - they're not supported yet).
• Added Arabic - contributed by Djihed Afifi
• fix for bug gnomebug:358415 crash in gantt view, contributed by Arthur Petitpierre and mdpoole trolius org

New in the v0.14 Release

• FF and SF Predecessors gnomebug:140561 (Kurt Maute)

• Simple priority scheduling (Matteo Nastasi): Use the --enable-simple-priority-scheduling option when building. This feature will allow a high priority task to steal resources from a lower priority task.

• View Non-standard working/nonworking days (Matteo Nastasi): In the Gantt view, this feature shows where resources have differences in working and nonworking days when compared to the default calendar.
• Resource Usage view canvas interactivity (Alvaro del Castillo): Right clicking on a usage bar or resource pops up an option menu.
• Gantt chart misalignment with tree view gnomebug:128983 (Francisco Moraes)
• Summary tasks: work now equals sum of child tasks gnomebug:305801 (Kurt Maute)
• Eliminate effects of resource assignments on summary tasks gnomebug:151604 (Kurt Maute): Assigning a resource to a summary task now has no effect.
• Update user guide: (Kurt Maute)
• View Grid Lines in Gantt view gnomebug:303374 (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy): Shows horizontal lines in Gantt to help visually line up tasks with Gantt bars.

Current Development

Here's some features we're looking at implementing in v0.15:

• MySQL database connectivity (Jon Wilkins): In Progress

• Resource leveling gnomebug:132917 (Kurt Maute)
• % Complete column in task view (Sanghyuk Suh)
• Mono bindings for libplanner (Kurt Maute)
• Bug fixes gnomebug:372694, gnomebug:388454, gnomebug:340498 (Jordi Mas)