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Re: Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz

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Post by IanCal »

zwischenzug wrote: post #2

Code here: https://github.com/ianmiell/pm-as-code I'm not a GV expert, so contributions/suggestions/critiques welcomed.

Nice stuff.

You might want to look at ordering things left to right with

    rankdir=LR;
You can also force particular groups to be on the same row/column (rank).

Also subgraphs to group certain sections if you want: http://graphs.grevian.org/example

This may also be useful to see the building up of a bit more complex graph http://larsbarkman.com/2015/08/26/alignmentmaps-with-graphvi...

Re: Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz

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Post by zwischenzug »

IanCal wrote: post #11
zwischenzug wrote: post #2

Code here: https://github.com/ianmiell/pm-as-code I'm not a GV expert, so contributions/suggestions/critiques welcomed.

Nice stuff. You might want to look at ordering things left to right with rankdir=LR; You can also force particular groups to be on the same row/column (rank). Also subgraphs to group certain sections if you want: http://graphs.grevian.org/example This may also be useful to see the building up of a bit more complex graph http://larsbarkman.com/2015/08/26/alignmentmaps-with-graphvi...

Thanks, I may include these in a deeper dive.

Re: Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz

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Post by zwischenzug »

tezza wrote: post #13

a great gui editor for similar tree-node structures is freemind a lot quicker than code dsl -> git -> graphviz and freemind also has search, edit, history, links, export as HTML http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Screenshots

Can it export to code?

Re: Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz

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Post by tezza »

zwischenzug wrote: post #14
tezza wrote: post #13

a great gui editor for similar tree-node structures is freemind a lot quicker than code dsl -> git -> graphviz and freemind also has search, edit, history, links, export as HTML http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Screenshots

Can it export to code?

it is open source and you could write an extension to output whatever you like.

there is even the last resort of transforming the built in XML ouput ( yuck ). Several Perl examples are given.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_ex...

Re: Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz

#16

Post by cirowrc »

Thanks for sharing!

I've been using the "same" technique with some projects I have but just to outline specific components of the system such that it becomes more clear what interacts with what.

For me, the best that I got out of it was having to think hard about those relations and improving the documentation of the subject.

Have a good one!

Re: Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz

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Post by zwischenzug »

mattsouth wrote: post #17

How much do people use dependencies in jira etc? Seems that one ought to be able to create a plugin that would automatically generate and update this graph for any issue with dependencies.

I looked into this.

There are plugins, but I can't add plugins at will at work. People don't use deps properly though - GIGO.

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