Tasks module

[michielbdejong]

I'll start with https://github.com/NoelDeMartin/solid-focus/blob/5db6787fcd9823b14b8062923dcfb9805a56a463/src/services/Workspaces.ts#L101

[michielbdejong]

I'm starting with ripping out the Soukai code for Tasks from solid-focus -> NoelDeMartin/solid-focus#13

[michielbdejong]

Doing some work related to this in the federated task-tracking project (also nlnet-funded):
federatedbookkeeping/task-tracking#15

[michielbdejong]

I'll work on this in the tasks folder in the tasks branch
I want to support:

• distributed versioning as well as competing world views (these are two different things, right?)
• mapping of local names for issues as well as (where possible) for authors
• audit logs both of how data changed over time and which people were involved, using which permissions

[michielbdejong]

In terms of the base model for Task state I think the basics are:

• title
• description
• comments
• state (open/closed)

Additional attributes may be:

• labels
• links with other tasks (sub-task, dependency, milestone)
• assignment
• link to PR data

Comments maybe be split out in a machine-readable way to attachments, work log and time tracking.

[michielbdejong]

Theory of Mind depends both on versioning between network nodes and on authoring between authors.
For the former, it can help pro-actively send updates to nodes you think need them.
For the latter, it is necessary to display merge conflicts to the end user and to properly log the change history.

I can start coding with a single operations log, where operations are:

• create/delete object
• (un)link foreign id
• (un)set attribute (for single-value attributes like title, description, state, ...)
• add/remove link (for multi-value attributes like comment, label, linked issues, ...)

[michielbdejong]

Then a function that processes a Solid pod HTTP response, including deduplication of already-seen comments etc.

[elf-pavlik]

What do you think about looking at how some established project management apps mode tasks? For example

• https://docs.github.com/en/rest/issues/issues?apiVersion=2022-11-28#get-an-issue
• https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/objects#issue
• https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/issues.html
• https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql/reference/#issue
• https://clickup.com/api/clickupreference/operation/GetTasks/
• https://developers.smartsuite.com/docs/solution-data/records/get-record
• https://developer.monday.com/api-reference/reference/items
• etc.