[Design] [Cosmo][Desktop] Making sure the server never ends up with a big pile of untriaged Chandler items

Philippe Bossut pbossut at osafoundation.org
Wed May 30 22:40:12 PDT 2007


Mimi Yin wrote:
> The best proposal we were able to come up with in the meeting was: 
> Remove the sharing filter options from the Publish dialog (for 
> Preview) so that users always push triage status to the server when 
> they publish. However, after they publish, desktop users can go to the 
> Manage share... dialog to adjust the sharing filters. This preserves 
> the ability to manipulate sharing filters on the desktop end, but 
> ensures that the server never gets a big pile of untriaged items.
I see 2 problems here:
1. it makes sense when sharing with others *not* to share the triage 
status. I mean, triage is really something that's relevant to my work 
status (I want to work on this "Now" doesn't mean that everyone has to 
work on this "Now"... on the contrary, they'll be happy to put that 
"Later"). So changing the default to always sharing this is somewhat 
killing the purpose of triage existing at all (in a collaborative 
environment that is), or limiting it to a sort of global "urgency 
status" shared by all.
2. once I adjust my sharing filters, won't this "big pile of untriaged 
items" grow all by itself eventually? i.e. aren't we simply delaying the 
problem? or just making it less likely because not the default behavior?

Cheers,
- Philippe


More information about the Design mailing list