Re: How do we define "fixed duration"?

[Sebastien Roy <Sebastien Roy Sun COM>]

Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> I've sent a mail to the submitter of the bug and this was his reply:

Thanks for the summary, I wasn't on the list when I sent my reply.  I am now. :-)

> The way I see it we now already have 2 different situations:
>
> 1) a task that will go on no matter what (e.g. drying of paint).
>    It needs to continue during weekends, nights, etc. 
>
> 2) an activity for which a certain amount of time is alotted. People
>    will be assigned to participate for a certain percentage of their
>    time (nr of units).
>
>    We should take the number of hours in a day from the project
>    calendar.
>
>    In this case we can calculate work to be the total sum of units spent
>    by all assigned resources during this period. If either the nr of
>    units for a resource or the duration is modified, we should
>    recalculate work. We should probably make work read-only (!).

Yes, excellent summary.  This is precisely my thinking as well.

> Are there more types? Kurt, you suggested a task to be done during
> curing of concrete, but isn't that more of a finish-to-finish
> relationship between the work and the curing?
>
> What I'm looking for is a type of task for which duration & work have
> been filled in by the user and for which units should be recalculated.
> I'm hoping there is no such task.

I'm not sure if this kind of task is that useful, given that you can enter in 
the amount of work in a regular task, and adjust resources to match your 
expectation of its duration...  Of course, this assumes that we haven't read the 
Mythical Man Month. ;-)

-Seb