Project Management Tool [Discontinued]

This is an open source project management tool that allow hierarchical activities.

The project was discontinued after I discovered Quire, an app that does exactly what I was seeking to implement. [Update] After using Quire for a while, the free version was not enough for my needs, and I decided to implement my own version of it using a web framework instead of starting from scratch as in this project. The link will be posted here soon.

Backlog

• Separate leaf tasks from composed tasks
  • A leaf task should be automatically transformed in a composed task when a subtask is created.
  • Attributes from composed tasks should be derived from leaf tasks.
  • Only leaf tasks should be shown in the activity list.
• Improve visualization of tasks as a list
  • Search, filter and sort by all atributes.
  • Current scheduling strategy: closest deadline first.
  • Scheduling strategy: Critical first.
  • Scheduling strategy: Quicks/Easies first.
  • Scheduling strategy: Funs first.
  • Creation of custom scheduling for advanced users
• Notifications of deadlines, changes in activities, etc.
• Multitask operations (delete, etc.)
• Add a nice search tool for tasks, users, tags, etc.
• Compute critical tasks based on dependencies and duration.
• Compute the predicted date to finish the project in the best and worst case scenarios considering the current status of tasks.
• Make stuff pretty
• Add task dependencies
• Add gant chart visualization
• Activity/Project progress bar
• Assigning users to tasks
• Add interested users to tasks (besides the main responsible for executing the task)
• Send remainder e-mails
• Push notifications.
• Synchronize with google calendar
• Dashboard
  • Worked hours by users
  • User performance (predicted task duration vs. effective duration)
  • Completed tasks by user
  • Users' allocation by period of time (if an user needs more hours to finish the tasks than his daily working hours, the tasks will be delayed)
• Allow users to download their data (task lists, etc).
• Security mechanisms so that users' information cannot be viewed neither by other users nor by the development team.

Installation Instructions

Install apache, mysql, and php

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php \
php-{bcmath,bz2,intl,gd,mbstring,mcrypt,mysql,zip} \
libapache2-mod-php phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext

When asked which server do you like to use choose apache by pressing space. When asked if phpMyAdmin should create a database using dbconfig, choose no.

Starting Apache and MySQL on boot

sudo systemctl enable apache2.service
sudo systemctl enable mysql.service

Restart apache service:

systemctl restart apache2.service

The installation process add a phpMyAdmin configuration file called phpmyadmin.config to /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/. If the file do not exists, edit the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, and add the following line to the end:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

Enable some php extensions:

sudo phpenmod mcrypt
sudo phpenmod mbstring

Restart apache:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Clone the repository to the directory /var/www/html.

Create a new database using phpMyAdmin called todolist_db. Import the tables' structures from sql/todolist_db.sql to the database.

Access the site http://localhost/project-management-tool .