[Kolab-devel] RFC: Format proposal for time tracking data

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> Gunnar,
>
> On Thursday 03 July 2008 07:29, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> Absolutely. That is the main reason why I posted this. I would like to
>> have at least one other candidate application that might have a chance
>> of implementing this in the forseeable future.
>
> yes, this should we a criteria for uptake in a regular released Kolab Storage 
> Format spec I would say. 
>
>> > Clients like "worklog" (which I use for timetracking) or KArm and
>> > whatever people use on Windows/Outlook.
>>
>> I checked KArm (which has been renamed to KTimeTracker for KDE4.0) and
>> I believe it has the necessary potential to become another Kolab
>> client app for time tracking. It integrates with Korganizer and can be
>> used as a plugin in Kontact. That sounds good to me.
>>
>> http://wiki.kde.org/ktimetracker
>>
>> I'll have a look at this and will check what type of data it
>> generates.
>
> Very cool! As you've liked the wiki, opening a page up there would
> be cool as well. ;)

Will do that soon.

>
>> "worklog" did not see any development over the past four years if I'm
>> not mistaken. And as it is also a web app I guess it would be easier
>> to cover that ground with Horde.
>
> I am using worklog for a couple of reasons and what is important is that our 
> format should not just be completed guided by the current implementations and 
> their formats, but by an analysis of the problem at hand, which includes the 
> workflow.

Sure.

Would be just interesting to know what your specific requirements in
that case are. The recently released "Hermes" is still very open to
new types of functionality. I also added some code to suite my own
workflow.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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