[News.eclipse.technology.mylar] Re: Marking bug complete

[Mik Kersten <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Also note this bug:

180023: provide guaranteed visibility mechanism for completed tasks
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=180023

Mik

Mik Kersten wrote:
> If a completed task is not activated and you are in the Focused mode, 
> then the only other current trick to make the task show is to mark it 
> unread via the context menu.  The things that give a task guaranteed 
> visibility when in Focused mode are that it is:
> * Scheduling: scheduled for this week or overdue
> * Changes: has incoming or outgoing changes
>
> This percolates up to parents, so a category will show if it has unread 
> tasks.  In 2.0M3 if a task has subtasks that need to be shown it will 
> also show.  We need to figure out how to document these guaranteed 
> visibility rules better, maybe by sticking them right into the UI legend.
>
> Mik
>
> Robert Elves wrote:
> > There was a bug for this with respect to the scheduled presentation 
> > mode which has been resolved:
> >
> > 180338: Active task not showing in scheduled mode if task not scheduled
> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=180338
> >
> > As a general rule, if the task is active it should never be hidden in 
> > the task list. If you are seeing this in the regular categorized mode 
> > then please post a new bug report with steps to reproduce.