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Bug 334489

Summary:	Prevent this week date bin from getting too large
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Sam Davis <sam.davis>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Sam Davis

2011-01-16 22:23:46 EST

Over time, the "this week" date bin tends to get bigger and bigger, which makes it hard to use for keeping track of what's actually important now. Maybe it would be a good idea to split it into 2 bins:
# Tasks scheduled for "this week" within the past 2 calendar weeks (i.e. during the current or the previous calendar week, as opposed to during the last 14 days)
# All other tasks scheduled for "this week"

Just a suggestion.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2011-08-15 11:25:32 EDT

I am not sure that adding more containers will actually solve the problem of having too many tasks scheduled. If the bin grows larger and larger it's an indication that too many tasks are scheduled and some should be dropped. If you wish to still keep track of them I would recommend adding them to a special category or scheduling them way in the future.

Comment 2 Sam Davis

2011-08-29 20:17:06 EDT

The problem is that there's no automatic way to distinguish between the things that should be dropped/rescheduled and those that shouldn't.

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2011-08-29 20:46:17 EDT

I would argue that you need to manually go through the container and drop or reschedule tasks. If you have aggregated too many things in your to do list there is no generic heuristic for things that should be dropped. It ultimately depends on your personal priorities.

Comment 4 Sam Davis

2011-08-30 16:16:16 EDT

That's true. The thing is that they are not ordered by when they were scheduled, which means that the bin becomes somewhat useless when it is too full -- adding something to it doesn't actually make it easier to find. I think my suggestion was one way of making it possible to "star" tasks (for the short term) without forcing you to clean out the bin.