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Very much +1

Actually a minimum viable product of this could easily be that the gannt chart could just calculate the start_date depending on the issue it's preceding and then the end_date to be calculated by that date + the time_estimated.

That would at least solve it for us.

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Management of the dependencies is a very important topic for our project management team.
Automated display of the dependencies in schedule (Gant view) would allow qui efficient management workload gain - no more need to update all dates, only the end date of the driving task.

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Is this feature already available? We are still using redmine version 2.x. We are discussing of an update...

Who knows whether this feature is already available? We're on 3.3.6.stable and looking to optimize some of the processes, so this feature would be a very handy tool.

We're also missing such a feature. It is very tedious work to touch the start and end dates of all follow up issues if one is being delayed or a new issue has been added. On the other hand a Gantt is really helpful to get an overview.

However, to make this feature functional, this needs 2 more settings in my opinion:
- The "maximum workload per day" needs to be time dependent. That means it must be possible to change the rate for different time periods, for example when new developers join a project. With one static number, the past would be changed and that is not good. I think a form with 3 fields can implement this: 1) start date 2) end date 3) max workload in hours. If the rate is constant for the full project, it should be okay to leave the dates empty (or set one rate for one very long period).
- Not strictly necessary, but very helpful for a better graph: some sort of parallelism factor. If all issues are displayed consecutively in the Gantt chart, this will probably be very far off from reality. In reality, multiple issues will be worked on at the same time. As soon as one is completed, the next issue should be started. This would not really change the end date of a project, but provides ab better abstract understanding for persons that are not directly involved in the development process (managers).

One optional and extremely helpful functionality would be a fully automatic generation of the Gantt chart based on Priority and estimated effort alone, even without providing dependencies.

If anyone is interested in developing this: my company is willing to fund the development. Please contact us at technik (at) verdigado (dot) com.