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

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Richard Hult skrev:
> I'm just talking about the naming scheme in the code though. The UI
> shouldn't have a name for this in my opinion, it's just a task with a
> high priority that should get scheduled before other tasks.
>
> It might even be good enough for the code to just talk about priorities
> too. And any task with a priority higher than other tasks, will
> "vampire" on those lower priority tasks. What do you think about that
> Matteo?

I realize that I should clairify what I meant here. I mean that it would 
be nice to get the same kind of delaying of lower prioritized tasks no 
matter if the (so-called vampire) tasks are fixed in time or not, and 
just let the priority decide which task gets the resource usage first.

This would improve the scheduling a lot and we would get rid of the very 
annoying synthetic dependencies or fixed dates that you are forced to 
use now to get tasks scheduled properly.

I haven't looked closely at the patch yet to see whether that would be 
possible though. What do you say Matteo, does it make sense to you? This 
would still give you your original feature, you would just add a task 
with very high priority to make sure it gets scheduled before other 
tasks, or the same priority if you want it to share the resources with 
other tasks.

/Richard

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