[Webcollab-users] deadlines and milestones

[Mark D. A. <md...@di...>]

Reading the docs, it would appear that if a task is in the "Planned"
state, it need not have a deadline.

But in the user interface, it seems that some fixed date deadline
is required, regardless.
Plus the db schema says that deadline is NOT NULL.

I'd like to have the option to not specify a deadline date
sometimes.

Furthermore, for my uses, in most cases what i'd rather specify
is a deadline *label*, which is in common across multiple tasks.
I guess you could call this a "milestone".

I would then separately configure the deadline/milestone date
for that label, and it would apply to all those tasks.

Perhaps this goal could be achieved through subtask inheritance,
except that it appears that inheritance from the parent is
a one time thing at only task creation time.
Plus, subtasking is really different from grouping into
a milestone -- the tasks need not have a dependency relationship
or other connection just to have a common milestone.

It is also conceivable that this feature could be shoehorned
into "task groups", by adding a deadline column to the taskgroups
table. There would need to be related UI changes.
The justification for "task groups" seems to have been UI issues
with subtask hierarchy presentation -- an argument that doesn't
convince me :) -- so I see no particular problem with using them
in this way.

Any thoughts?

-mda