On Sunday 19 July 2009 00:00:46 Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    > For example, let's assume we have target a, b, c There is a way
>    > to know that "a" is a past target, "b" is the current target and
>    > "c" is a future target ?
>
> We could add a "date due" field for each target.

Good idea

>    > More: there is a way to know if a target is closed or open ?
>
> We could add a "target close" operation that moves all open bugs
> assigned to one target to the next date-due target.

Nice. But instead of moving all bugs to the next date-due target, I'd prefer 
to leave the choice to the user


> I see problems with these ideas in general, because we're assuming
> agreement by all parties/branches on when a target's date due is.
> Maybe it's okay to demand that social conventions be used to handle
> such a disagreement, or maybe not.

I don't see these as problems per se. We can have two cases:

1) a personal branch (like my html output or Trevor's email interface). In 
this case there is not any problem to decide the due date

2) a branch with a group of delopers (let it be the canonical branch o an 
experimental branch): in this case I suppose that working together means to be 
able to agree on some things

In any case, having the possibility to set a due date does not means that it 
is obligatory to do it and should be a good idea to offer as many possibilities 
as we can to the users of BE

bye
Gianluca



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