That is a good point.  Just to make sure I better understand, you are 
happy with the pointing-to structure of the tickets, but the question 
was how to have effort and such also add up along a certain path.  Is 
that a better statement of your question?

Greg Troxel wrote:
> Ariel Balter <[email protected]> writes:
>
>   
>> One would like to be able to do all of the following:
>> Case 1:
>> Ticket #A depends on tickets #B, #C, and #D all being done.  In the
>> lingo of the MasterTicketPlugin, tickets #B, #C, and #D block #A
>> Case 2:
>> Tickets #B, #C, and #D all depend on #A being done.  Or, #A blocks #B,
>> #C, #D
>> Case 3:
>> Ticket #A is essentially comprised of tickets #B, #C, #D.  When #B,
>> #C, #D are closed, then #A is automatically closed.
>>
>> Cases 1 and 2 can be done with the MasterTicketPlugin.  Case 3, which
>> Greg brought up in the thread mentioned above, views tickets as
>> "tasks" rather than bug reports or enhancement requests, the Trac
>> default paradigm.  In this default paradigm, for Case 3, one should
>> either close #A, or close all of #B, #C, #D, and mark them as
>> duplicates.  From a "bug tracking" scheme that is fine.  From a
>> project management scheme, that defeats the purpose of defining sub
>> tasks.
>>     
>
> In case 3, all of BCD are closed as individual work items.  Then a human
> looks at A and says "yes, after doing B C and D I still think that task
> A is done" and closes it.  I don't see any problem wtih this.  The
> purpose of sub tasks is to express what needs to be done at a finer
> granularity and to be able to know that some subtasks are really
> complete - so manually reviewing A doesn't hurt these goals at all.
>   

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