[Ml-yokadi] Increasing urgency with time

[Sébastien Renard]

Le dimanche 15 février 2009, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> Sébastien Renard wrote:
> > Le vendredi 13 février 2009, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> >> Sébastien Renard wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Yokadi is happy to have separate urgency and due notion. But, I think
> >>> it could be smart to take time into account in urgency definition.
> >>>
> >>> How about increasing urgency accoring to task age ?
> >>>
> >>> We could for exemple compute urgency as :
> >>> base_urgency + number of days since creation.
> >>>
> >>> I have a working patch but I would like to have your opinion before
> >>> merging.
> >>
> >> I personally would find it annoying to have Yokadi reorder my tasks
> >> behind my back. Plus it would not integrate well with the bugtracking
> >> commands (using bug_edit would reset the urgency)
> >
> > The urgency field is never changed (it is the based urgency). The
> > increased urgency is only used for listing and sorting.
> >
> > See the "urgency" branch to have a look.
>
> I still don't like it. It makes "t_reorder" useless since the order you
> set is ignored. I would prefer to follow the KISS principle on this one.

Right. But how to consider task age ? It's a quite valuable information. A 
todo list is not FIFO but should not tend to be LIFO.

After applying this patch I rediscover some forgotten tasks that were always 
hidden by new one. 

How to handle that properly ?

a+
-- 
Sébastien