Project management question

[James McDonald]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>I have been struggling with cross platform open source project
>management software. The situation is not pretty. All packages seems to
>be very far from usable. 'Little' things like task dependencies (as in,
>many do not support the notion). Or getting a simple list of the total
>hours that an individual will spend on the project.
>
>I have been closest with
>
>	egroueware's project module (PHP-based) - But it does not
>		do task dependencies. If a task slides, you must
>		edit all effected tasks by hand. You must independently
>		keep track of which tasks those are...
>
>	GanttProject (Java based) - No resource summaries. Just their
>		names and addresses. Not time they are requiring.
>
>I have tried a literal plethora of these things. But not a single one
>was usable. Which means that either I am expecting too much (don't think
>so) or these tools are not understood in the Open Source community
>(can't think so).
>
>There was a threat to me today that I would have to start using MS
>Project. Talk about messing up a good day. And generally souring the
>tone of this mail as well...
>
>Does anyone have any pointers to this kind of thing? There are lots of
>crappy ones out there. I mean pointers to ones that seriously work. Ones
>that, perhaps, you yourself are using.
>
>And if I suggest we buy one, I have been told it will be MS Project. And
>I may not get away with codeweavers/wine on that one as it seems there
>are 'issues'.
>
>So, help !!!!
>  
>
I tried one on sourceforge called dotproject it was a pretty PALM based 
thing but I never used it for project management because I couldn't 
organize a barbeque in a forest fire.