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. > -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Ariel I Balter, Ph.D. Postdoc Biological Monitoring/Modeling Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Mail: PO Box 999, MS P7-58,Richland, WA 99352 Shipping: 790 6th Street, MS P7-58, Richland, WA 99354 Tel: 509-376-7605 Cell: 509-713-0087 [email protected] www.arielbalter.com www.pnl.gov --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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