[O] Re: [taskjuggler] small edits to org-taskjuggler.el for tj3

[Christian Egli]

Hi Gregory

"Sullivan, Gregory (US SSA)" <address@hidden> writes:

> Appended is a patch with a couple of small changes to
> org-taskjuggler.el, addressing the following issues:

Thanks for your patch. 

> General:
>
> * in org-taskjuggler-open-project, the duration is never calculated
> (default is always used).

Good catch and thanks for your patch. Unfortunately the patch causes
problems with my export. The duration is now correctly calculated,
however the root task now also has an end attribute which causes
problems down the road and TJ2 tells me that "End of task foo does not
fit into the project time frame. Try using a later project end date".
But no matter how much I put the end date into the future the issue
remains. If I remove the end attribute from the root task it seems to
work. 

This might be an inherent problem with the fact that the exporter uses
the root task also as a container for project specific information.

> Specific to tj3:
> * the reports need a "formats" attribute
> * I wasn't sure about how best to maintain backwards compatibility
> with the default report strings, as I override the taskjuggler version
> in the .org file (not in my .emacs file). 

The reports are a problem. Right now they are defined in a custom
definition. To maintain backwards compatibility we could probably just
add a new custom definition for tj3 reports and use that one if we're
exporting to tj3.

> * for tj3, I found that I needed to put a "scheduling" property in the
> top level task, with value "asap". TaskJuggler III v0.0.11

Are you suggesting we should insert this automatically? Shouldn't this
be at the users discretion?

Thanks
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Christian Egli
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