[Design] Who's Triage Status is it anyway?

[Mimi Yin]

On Jan 16, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:

> Hi, Mimi
>
> The proposed behaviour makes sense to me. I can't speak Mr Stearns,  
> but it looks to me as if this would be a case of "more of the same".
>
> In Scenario 2, are you saying that events automatically have their  
> (colour) triage status changed to DONE once they're over?
>

ya

> --Grant
>
> PS: I think you lost the end of a sentence before the '======' below.

ahh, filled it in below...good to know you're reading every word ;O)

>
> On 16 Jan, 2007, at 13:22, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> This write-up is also on the wiki at: http:// 
>> wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/WhosTriageStatusIsItAnyway
>> Related bug: http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7726
>>
>> We've been struggling for a long, long, long time with not having  
>> a robust way to reflect the differences between:
>> + Focus status (e.g. Have I seen this item? Have I processed this  
>> item? Have I put it away in the right places?); and
>> + The actual status of an item.
>>
>> This dilemma of course, usually presents itself when sketching out  
>> Sharing use cases:
>>
>> + Ivan the Individual Contributor shares his persona task list  
>> with Helen the Hub.
>> + Ivan has been struggling with a Task for months. It's been  
>> cycling between NOW and LATER with no end in sight. Ivan finally  
>> finishes the Task and with an enormous sense of satisfaction,  
>> marks the Task as D-O-N-E.
>> + On such a momentous occasion, Ivan decides he must send out an  
>> UPDATE about his accomplishment to Helen and clicks the Update  
>> button in the Toolbar.
>>
>> + Helen 'receives' the Update and in her Chandler, Ivan's task  
>> jumps to the top of the NOW section in the Dashboard view of  
>> Ivan's personal task list collection.
>> + IF we don't special-case Ivan's Update, the Task would be  
>> automatically marked as Triage status = NOW, which would undermine  
>> Ivan and confuse Helen.
>> + I think what we actually want to happen is to keep the Triage  
>> status = DONE;

while still plopping the Task to the top of Helen's NOW section.

>>
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