Re: [Planner Dev] A patch to correct task costs calculations

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

On lör, 2004-04-17 at 11:36 +0200, Xavier Ordoquy wrote:
> > total += mrp_assignment_get_units (l->data) * priv->work * cost /
> > (3600.0 * 100);
> > 
> > that is the correct thing to do, but then, we have the email from
> > Waldemar that shows some strange things and the problem is using
> > "priv->work".  The "work" to do the task won't change but if we change
> > the assignment_units for a resource to a task, the cost using the same
> > work will be lower, that it is wrong. So to solve the thing, we need to
> > change "priv->work" for "priv->duration".
> 
> You also need duration instead of work if you use more than one
> resource.
> 
> > total += mrp_assignment_get_units (l->data) * priv->duration * cost /
> > (3600.0 * 100);
> 
> We do need to setup some task cases for which we do define tasks,
> resources and the expected cost. Then we'll agree on those and be able
> to get the correct cost computation.

It would be really nice to get this fixed for 0.12, it should be really
simple code-wise once we've figured out the right way :)

I moved the bug to 0.12:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136053

/Richard

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