[Ml-yokadi] Increasing urgency with time

[Sébastien Renard]

Le mardi 17 février 2009, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> Sébastien Renard wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I agree. I do not have a definitive solution, but I think we can do a
> few things to improve the situation:
>
> - Change t_list output to show the task age instead of the creation date
> (which is not that interesting).

Definitely !

> - Add an option to t_list to sort by age.
> Hmm... (thinking aloud) if we multiply age with urgency, we get
> something quite similar to your patch. 

Sum, not multiple.

> Maybe this is a better solution: 
> add your sorting algorithm, 
> but just not as the default one.

As a config option switch ? Ok, so we would have for TASK_SORT :
- 1=urgency (default)
- 2=urgency+age

And what about display for t_list ? Always fix urgency or a switch between fix 
or increased according to sorting algorythm ?

-- 
Sébastien