[Toaster] filtering tasks by order

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 16 January 2014 13:29:23 Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> On 16/01/2014 12:25, "Ravi Chintakunta" <ravi.chintakunta at timesys.com>
> wrote:
> >While I am writing the base code for filtering objects in a table, I
> >cannot think of a use case where one would be interested in filtering
> >tasks by their execution order. Please refer to the UI design in page 8
> >of the attachment in
> >https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4278.
> >
> >Filtering tasks between two arbitrary numbers does not seem to serve any
> >purpose. Am I missing something?
> 
> I guess the question is that the numbers don't need to be arbitrary. If I
> am looking at the details of a task x, and I see its order number is n, I
> might be interested in looking at what happened right before and after n,
> and I might find useful to narrow down the content of the massive tasks
> table to n-5 to n+5, for example, so that I can focus on the interesting
> subset without being bothered by the noise of the other tasks.
> 
> Having said that, I am very much open to change. If people do agree that
> filtering tasks by their execution order is not useful, let's get rid of
> that filter.

I hadn't yet added my 2c, but for what it's worth I agree with Ravi - I don't 
see much use in filtering on execution order particularly if it will take us 
extra time to implement.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre