Re: [Debian-sf-devel] Task Manager Rewrite

[Tim Perdue]

Roland Mas wrote:
> Speaking of which, I'd like to add a requirement to them: that all PHP
> files have the following lines somewhere at the end of them.  This
> will make sure all us Emacs users have the appropriate indentation
> style and Emacs mode (especially for .class files, which Emacs tends
> to not see as PHP files).
>
> // Local Variables:
> // mode: php
> // c-file-style: "bsd"
> // End:

Four lines in every file just for emacs?

> > -Easily spawn tasks from tracker items
> >         (if a bug is submitted, you should be able to easily spin that
> > into task manager, same for patches)
>
>
>   That's not exactly the way I thought of it.  Bugs/patches/tracker
> items and tasks are independent of each other, in my mind.  Again,
> please make that behaviour disablable.

I think it's just a button or checkbox in the tracker, like "add a task 
for this bug". So it's optional.

> > -when a constraining task is delayed, you must recursively
> >         push back other tasks where necessary
>
>
>   Um.  Depends what you use for the end dates.  If they record
> deadlines set by management, for instance, you can't just push them
> back as easily.

That's how visio and ms project seem to handle it. I guess they assume 
that mgmt are the ones doing the modifications, so if they push back a 
date, you always see the dependent tasks moved back on the gantt chart 
as well.

Tim