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[Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nimit Shah,
B Tech 3rd year,
Computer Engineering Department,
SVNIT Surat
Secretary ACM-NIT Surat
www.dude-says.blogspot.com



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From: Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2012/4/10
Subject: Re: [Gtg-contributors] Setting due date of tasks
To: Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>


I still feel that changing the start date to the due date will be
considered as a bug by normal users, because they will be setting due dates
earlier than start dates only by mistake.
If they feel that a task is due earlier, then they will change the start
date too.

A child should not have a due date later than the parent task.  We can also
keep a check for child's start_date. We can enforce the start date to be
earlier than the due date of the parent with earliest due_date (since a sub
task can have more than one parent.)

Nimit Shah,
B Tech 3rd year,
Computer Engineering Department,
SVNIT Surat
Secretary ACM-NIT Surat
www.dude-says.blogspot.com



2012/4/10 Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>

> Take a look at how it works now in GTG:
>  1, Open a task editor
>  2, Set start date into far future (e.g. 2012-04-29)
>  3, Set due date into not so far future (e.g. 2012-04-22)
>  4, Watch the result in task browser or re-open the task editor
>
> The current result: *due date* is updated to 29th, not start date.
>
> I suggested to move *start date* to 22nd.
>
> We need to have a consistent policy across the whole GTG. Greying out
> doesn't work for text widget and calendar in a task editor.
>
> Use cases:
>  1, I set start date and it is after due date => start > due
>  2, I set due date and it is before start date => due < start
>  3, Parents have shorter due date => parent.due < child.due
>  4, Children have longer due date => children.due > parent.due
>
> Don't forget that by changing anything by use case 3 or 4, you may trigger
> 1 and 2 in any parents/children.
>
> I propose:
>  1, change start date to be due date, I find star date not so important as
> due date
>  2, same as 1
>  3, "Disable" changing due date by setting it to parent.due
>  4, Decrease all children's due dates to the new due date: because when
> your boss tells you to finish project a week earlier, you would need to
> change just one date and subtasks shrinks to that date.
>
> What do you think? How would you solve those use cases?
>
> Izidor
>