From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: rpgoldman@sift.info
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Possible bug in ordered tasks
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:03:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4264D53A-92CE-43C1-A7CC-5526DDD90BC4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1B93D4.1050000@sift.info>
Hi Robert,
On Jun 18, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
> I have found what I believe to be a bug in handling ordered subtasks.
> Here is the behavior:
>
> I have a top level set of tasks that is ordered.
>
> One of the outline items below the top level set is a grab bag of
> tasks
> that will be performed in parallel. So this task is NOT ordered
> (ORDERED: nil).
>
> The problem is that the blocking behavior from ordered tasks seems
> to be
> inherited from the top level task list into the second level of the
> outline, even though the ORDERED property at the second level is
> explicitly overridden.
>
> I am attaching an org file that displays this issue. To see the
> problem, put your cursor on the "Bar" task and attempt to change its
> status to DONE.
The problem here is that the value of the ORDERED property is the
string "nil", and that is of course not nil!
I have introduced a special case to have "nil" interpreted as nil
here, because your use case makes a lot of sense.
Thanks!
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-25 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-18 15:42 Possible bug in ordered tasks Robert Goldman
2010-06-25 7:03 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-06-25 13:23 ` Robert Goldman
2010-06-25 14:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 14:48 ` Robert Goldman
2010-06-25 16:21 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 18:55 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-06-26 5:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-26 11:34 ` Bernt Hansen
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