First and foremost, I’d prefer to be honest about my use of AI:
Testing – writing tests, test plans and QA: Pair
That’s it! I think my commit history will speak for itself.
I've been a member of this community for a very long time now (ever since the Reddit API crisis and my move to Lemmy) and for several years now, I’ve been thinking about sharing my personal project with you. There is a good reason why I’ve hesitated for so long : I’m happy with what I’ve done, but I haven’t been a professional developer for a long time, and it shows in my UI :D
But nothing ventured, nothing gained, and that’s why I’m taking the plunge today to introduce you to a timeline management tool.
It’s simple, still a bit rough around the edges in some respects (particularly the table-based editing mode), and you’ll certainly find some features missing, but it does the job for me at the moment.
I’m sharing this with you today for two reasons:
- To showcase my work, and perhaps give you a pleasant surprise
- To get your feedback on what you see, and any missing features that might make you want to use it
Because if I’m going to spend my evenings working on a project like this for several years, it might as well be of use.
Here are a few ideas for features I’m currently thinking about :
- Implementing other types of charts (like gantt)
- New options to customize color
- Zooming in/out on your charts
- Implement the option to enable authentication on your instance
- Implement the option to enable the organisational principle for grouping and sharing creations by different users
The product can be tested online completely free of charge or tested using its Docker image
Thank you in advance for taking the time to consider my project. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
if you do Gantt charts, please make sure you implement as many dependency types as possible - most of the power of gantt charts lies in how depencies allow for changing one thing and having automatic adjustment of the entire timeline, but almost all of the tools I've used have only implemented "this task starts when that task ends" which is infuriating
Thank you so much for your feedback.
This is indeed a feature that would be interesting to implement—offering three types of links between two tasks:
Of course, I need to consider all the constraints this might create in the current user interface. But it’s a very interesting idea that I hadn’t considered before.
You're very welcome! Just to be clear, these are the types of dependencies I was thinking:
etc.!
I think it should be possible to define many dependencies / constraints and have the program simply freeze and flag when there are conflicts due to overdefining. I'm sure there's a way to calculate the degrees of freedom, though the math isn't something I can be bothered with rn haha