Theme: AI

OVERSING UPDATE

Still headed toward an (alpha) early beta the end of the month. Although I have reservations, and am skeptical, it’s still looks possible assuming a lot comes together next week.

The main issue that I see is whether we can fix the Agenda panels, the forecasting, and whether we can make progress showing the appointments. I think that’s another month of work myself.

And the lack of updates by websockets in some places is … noticeable.

After that another 60 days of annoying little stuff while we’re in beta and we should be ready to start taking money.

ON DOCUMENTATION

Yesterday I got through all of the Workspace UI that I can do. Today I’ll work on Forecasting (reserving time, and measuring forecasting performance).

Next I have to work on the how-to sections. (which is more natural to write really)

Then after that the advanced issues. It’s a very time consuming process. The app is enormous and there are multiple ways of doing almost everything.

ON FEDERATION

Kirill got the work done much faster than I’d ever imagined. Now it’s all the billing, and data sync.

So you will be able to buy an instance (sort of how slack does it) and switch between instances.

ON REPORTS

I haven’t seen progress on reports. Alexey tends to do big updates. I’ll hopefully get some information on Friday.

ON RESOURCING AND FINANCIAL PROCESSING

Resourcing, Forecasting, Period and Financial processing all have sufficient nits in them that they’re just not ready.

So we’ll soldier onward. 🙂

OVERSING UPDATE.

Kirill has federation working. Meaning that you log into the central database ( Like Facebook) and then if you want your own instance you buy it in app. And switch between them as desired. We then propagate all your reputation stats to your central profile. The public system does not have monetary or financial features available but you can still run projects.

He is finishing up the websocket and queue modifications. Then he will hook up the payment system.

After that we have a bunch of usability issues that I have found while writing the documentation. And we have the one serious issue: including appointments on the Gantt chart. And the schedule panel just needs some fine work.

I found one today that killed me: if you enter time on a task, it adds it at the current moment.

You would expect that if you added time against an appointment that it would enter it during the appointment time.

But nope. It also adds it at the current moment.

Sigh.

There are four ways of adding time.

1) just like leaving a fb post on a task ( there are many types of tasks)

2) same except on an appointment.

3) on your agenda.( I have given plenty of thought to cutting this and still might.)

4) by sort of command line. You just type it on your wall like text. And Oversing is smart enough to figure it out.

Basically if you can see something and you can assign yourself to it the. You can book time against it.

Cool.