Re: [Planner Dev] Prop. for new feat. - first patch

[Carsten Klein <carstenklein yahoo de>]

Don't know if that would help you out as I am definately not a native 
speaker,
but I think that calling something "parasitic" in some way or the other 
is plainly wrong.
When referring to a task that occurs due to initial mismanagement and 
wrong planning
and wrong overall layout of the project's schedule, or simply by some 
unforeseen
circumstance or an additional, previously unthought of requirement.

In that, you will never embrace the additional task and will detect your 
own previous
mismanagement and rather correct or improve on that. Calling the task 
parasitic in some
way or the other, is like actually not wanting to do it anyway. So it 
could at best be left
out of the schedule and become simply a sub-task of the task that is 
actually unmentioned
in the project's schedule.

The project should know of only tasks and various states of tasks rather 
than actually distinguish
between additional different types of tasks.

If a task is worthy enough to be put into the project's schedule, why 
not make it a sub-task of
the other task from which it arises and for example add a comment or two 
describing the task's
duties and why the task emerged during processing of the other task.

Just my two cents,

Carsten



Richard Hult wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Matteo Nastasi wrote:
>
>  
>
> > > 4. For the drawing parts, make sure that this still works for really
> > > long tasks. All the odd-looking code we have there is because the 16-bit
> > > limitation in X, so we need to be careful to not wrap around when
> > > drawing long tasks (and when zooming in a lot).
> > >      
> > My code not work correctly with your clipping method (You can try it 
> > using your method on the horizontal dashed border line of vampire task
> > and moving another window on it). I need an alternative method to clip
> > my graphical primitives.
> >
> > Doesn't solve GDK this problem for us?
> >    
>
> Theoretically it should. We can draw lines that are less then 2^16 long
> anywhere in a 2^32 space. But it shouldn't be a problem since everything
> should be clipped to the viewed area anyway. The current drawing code is
> a bit "odd" to say the least. If you come up with a cleaner solution, I
> would be happy to use that instead.
>
>  
>
> > > 5. We need to come up with some other term than "vampire" in my opinion.
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >      
> >  vlad task ? 
> >  parassite task ?
> >    
>
> I think parasite is pretty good. Any native english speakers here? :)
>
> /Richard
>
>  

	

	
		
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