Oh if they do need the same set of fields, then they basically are the
same item so I would agree with the proposal. I always just thought of
project as more of a label than a task with
priority/completion/handlers/etc, but if it makes sense to combine
them for simplicity, I'm all for it.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Todd Davies <davies@stanford.edu>; wrote:
> Todd Davies commented on Project Model Proposal
>
> Comment title: Re: Need Input- Mike
>
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> Mike, the advantages are:
>
> * One item type instead of two (project, recursively defined)
> * Avoids duplication of fields across two item types - Project and Task
> both seem to need the same set of fields
> * Allows progressive refinement into subprojects, whereas refining a Task
> would require changing it to a Project (deleting and creating a new item
> or changing its type) so it could hold other tasks
> * Allows easy creation of a project without need to specify any tasks, but
> later refinable into subprojects
>
> With multiple inheritance we can treat Project as both a Collection and
> an HTMLDocument, so it's DRY because you can embed both viewers in a
> Project viewer.
>
> Todd
>
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> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Mike Mintz wrote:
>
>> [Mike Mintz][1] commented on [Project Model Proposal][2]
>> Comment title: [Re: Need Input- Mike][3]
>>
>> * * *
>
>>
>> Seems like it would work, but I'm not sure what the benefit is over
>> the current proposal. Django has some bugs with multiple inheritance
>> which have made things a bit harder for TextComment, but other than
>> that it's technically feasible.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Noam Ben-Avi <nbenavi@stanford.edu>;
>> wrote:
>>> Noam Ben-Avi commented on Project Model Proposal
>>> Comment title: Need Input- Mike
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> Should we combine task and project into one super item that multiply
>>> inherits html document and collection? Are there any intricacies of the
>>> Deme
>>
>>> architecture that would prevent this from happening?
>>
>>
>> [1]: http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/person/7
>> [2]: http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/htmldocument/207
>> [3]: http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/textcomment/403
>>
>>
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