LibrePlan Roadmap Meeting 2012/10/09

• Date: October 09, 2012 at 16:30 CEST (GMT +2)
• Agenda: Roadmap meeting
• Log: libreplan-roadmap-meeting-20121009.txt

Minutes

• First we reviewed the previous RoadMap for version 1.3 and the tasks done in that release:
  • All top priority tasks but Improve help and documentation
  • Some medium priority tasks: Vertical line to show with the start of the project, KPIs per project and Subcontracting module
  • Apart from other extra features not initially defined in the original roadmap

• We discussed about the possible tasks for the next release 1.4, and the final list is composed by the following ones:
  • Top priority
    • Add a filter by project status in the projects screens
    • Add a quicksearch to find projects easier in the projects screens
    • Right mouse menu register in the left menu of the project planning perspective
    • Protect the upper menu from abandoning the planning of a project without saving
    • Improve documentation
  • Medium prioriy
    • Import projects from Microsfot Project and Planner
    • Review possible performance issues in order to look for some improvements
    • Add a new project status called pre-sales
    • JIRA integration
    • Show the load of the resources to be assigned in allocation pop-up

• Some other tasks were left out of the roadmap for 1.4 but could be interesting to be included in the future:
  • Save KPIs in database in order to wrap up the project status
  • Add CSV import/export for projects
  • Add a pipeline page to show projects grouped by status
  • Make WBS screen more user-friendly with more keyboard shortcuts and some other thins like columns for dependencies and so on
  • Print Gantt chart in PDF format
  • Include the groups feature:
    • A group or department will be composed by a list of resources
    • Add filters to show only projects/resources belonging to a group

• Finally we defined the estimated date for LibrePlan 1.4 release as week 1