quoting, tasks, semantics

[Christopher Hicks]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Gervase Markham wrote:
> IMO, the bug should remain the individual unit. If it's too heavyweight for a 
> particular use, the interface can be customised to remove many of the fields. 
> You can track a group of connected bugs using the dependency tree view.

I once felt that bugs and tasks were semantically similar enough to share 
the same underlying structure and just have a flag indicating "which kind 
it is", but the groupware integration I'm imagining would work much 
smoother if tasks were their own thing.  Most of the groupware apps have a 
task concept on their own.  I'm not expecting it to be rocket science to 
allow a user to create/complete tasks within the groupware or bugzilla. 
I'll show you the results in a few weeks hopefully.

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</chris>

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