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by calgoo 4323 days ago
Im currently working on something similar, but focused on the tasks more.

Its like a mix of a project manager and a timesheets portal. The front page contains your list of active tasks for the day, and any sticky tasks that you have. The team leader can assign tasks from projects to individual users, and be able to see the current project assigned time, and set threshold for hours spent / left.

Project managers will also be able to assign projects to teams, and also see current progress of tasks completed, time spent on tasks etc.

I was also thinking of distributing it as a self hosted open source app and maybe a hosted solution as well. For something like this, what would the recomended license be? Something like AGPL or BSD? How would any of you release the software, and if I would like to offer a hosted service in the future, would you worry of others using your software and selling the service as well?

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AGPL feels toxic to me. At least add a commercial option then.

I'm working on something myself and my contributions to open source has so far been in sending and getting accepted a few pull requests with improved docs on one project and improvements to some javascript library as well as sneding a few bucks to a couple of projects that takes donations.

Haven't release anything serious yet but I know if I do it will be permissive because at the moment I'm giving it away I want it to be as useful as possible and not tied up. (Unless I want to run some dual licensing scheme. ; )