Taskrambler

When this is finished it will become a distributed task and time management system with a web frontend. It will come with its own HTTP server implementation and thus wont need any third party webserver to work. The backend is written completely in C while the frontend will be JavaScript, CSS and HTML.

Users will be able to connect to the server via their browsers, manage their tasks there and specify policies who else might see their tasks, track the time spend on a specific task, attach tasks to projects, getting reports about their work done, etc.

For the taskmanagement stuff I think of a similar approach as taskwarrior is going. This is an amazing tool and I really enjoy using it. I started this as an experiment to implement an HTTP server, then I learned about taskwarrior and thought, wouldn't it be great to have this functionality in a multiuser environment.

Right now, this is a single process HTTP server implementation that performs not to bad. And some application logic for user management. Every connection is associated with a session and user can register, login and modify their user data.

In the nearer future an role based access control system will be added. Users will be able to add tasts, (for now just a text and maybe a date or something) and they should be able to control who else might see a task.

If this works reliable I will announce version 0.2.

The main development page can be found here.

INSTALLATION

This can be installed via the usual configure, make, make install cycle. For gentoo users am ebuild is added under docs.

API DOC

To generate the api doc a patched version of doxygen is neccessary. A patch is included under docs.

make docs creates the api doc.

TEST COVERAGE REPORT

gcov and lcov are needed to build these.

The source has to be configured with configure --enable-gcov. make coverage-html creates the converage reports then.

USAGE

RUNNING

Simply start the installed executable. This will usually be found under /usr/local/bin/taskrambler after successfull build and installation.

When installed with the ebuild the executable will be /usr/bin/taskrambler.

After the executable is stared you should be able to see the staskrambler user interface with your browser by openening http://localhost:11212/.

In the upper right corner you can see session and user related information.

CONFIGURATION

A first configuration file is installed in your etc folder under taskrambler/taskrambler.conf. The syntax of that file is described in it.

Currently there are only 5 settings that can be configured.

• ldap_base: The base for the ldap Distinguished Name (DN) for user lookups.
• ldap_host: The ldap server to connect to.
• assets_dir: Defines where taskrambler will find its assets.
• runtime_dir: The place where the user and credential database files are stored
• port: The port taskrambler should run on.

PORT

Taskrambler will always connect to the port specified in the config for HTTP connections.

A second socket will be opened on port+1 for SSL connections.

LOGIN

Every user that can be authenticated either via LDAP or via taskramblers own database can login via the login link in the menu.

SIGNUP

It is possible to create a user account by clicking the signup link. After a successfull signup you will be automatically logged in.

CHANGE USER DATA

After a successfull login you have the ability to see your current account informations and modify them via "my account"

TESTING

This comes with the start of a unit test suite. You can use make test to build and run the existent tests.

REQUIREMENTS

Currently, you need valgrind to build the tests, because some memory checking is done by the way.

CONTRIBUTION

I would really like to see some people possibly interested in this stuff. I think it contains some really interesting ideas.

If you like to contribute anyway, make a fork, do your changes and generate a pull request. Or simply contact me on georg@steffers.org.