Task Deadlines / Milestones

[ashant]

Greetings,

I'm looking to assign deadlines or milestones at the task level, since we have several projects being handled by a single team simultaneously and we need to organize ourselves around schedules. Is it possible to set Task Deadlines in Mantis BT?

Thank you
Ashant

[atrol]

As far as i know, this is not possible.

But what about using the Roadmap feature together with a date in the description of every project release / milestone?
Everybody will see the date, whenever he looks at the roadmap.
Everybody sees, what has to be done until next milestone.

You have just to assign the target version to a task.

Furthermore you can define filters based on target version together with filtering based on assigned person.

[tom_glebas]

We've used the custom field feature to create a target date (a softer way to say deadline). The code was then modified to display the target date in the Roadmap (as well as showing up in individual issues as part of the built in custom field functionality).

The following post has more information on the details: http://www.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7747

For our next customization, we want to use the ETA to define the target date - for example, if today is Sept 23, and we set the ETA to 1 week, the target date will be updated to Sept 30. Or, we'll continue to have the option to set the target date explicitly.

Tom

[ashant]

We took the custom fields way, which with some level of enforced-discipline on the developers works alright..

Nevertheless, IMHO task-level deadlines would be a great feature.