[Toaster] filtering tasks by order

[Barros Pena, Belen]

On 22/01/2014 17:31, "Paul Eggleton" <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>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.

Excellent. Thank you, Paul.

It looks like we can get rid of the Order filter, unless someone else has
something to say about the matter.

Cheers

Belén

>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>
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>
>Paul Eggleton
>Intel Open Source Technology Centre