Taskchampion vs recurrence

[gour]

Hello!

Yesterday when asking about 3.0 release, mostly related to fixing (once and for all) current lack of proper support for recurring tasks, I was told that, probably, Taskchampion-related stuff have higher priority than releasing 3.0 with "recurrence overhaul". Few times I tried to move to Emacs/org-mode, but always returned back seeing TW as simply (much) more productive for me, but I was always bitten with the extra admin overhead in managing many recurring tasks.

For some time I was even sponsoring development hoping we'll see some beta by the end of the 2021, but then gave up, moved to Etm which handles are recurring needs, but...TW's interface is still more productive, so I wonder how does the work on Taskchampion which seems to influence taskserver as well influence work on planned "recurrence overhaul" scheduled for 3.0?

How far/close is 3.0 release anyway?

Sincerely,
Gour

[angelus2014]

I would have to agree, the recurrence overhaul would need to be the highest priority as this, imho, is the biggest problem in TW.

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With regards,

Angelo Machils

[djmitche]

I can only speak to the work on the sync overhaul, since I'm the person doing most of it. It's quite far from done, so I can't put a date on it -- and certainly, if other work needs to ship before that is ready, that's OK too.

[gour]

I can only speak to the work on the sync overhaul, since I'm the person doing most of it. It's quite far from done, so I can't put a date on it

Thanks a lot for your work on reviving Taskwarrior!

and certainly, if other work needs to ship before that is ready, that's OK too.

Well, my point is that recurrence is an important feature even for single-device users not having need to sync across many devices. 😉

[tbabej]

I am taking the lead on the recurrence features. It's a big change, so putting timeline with limited resources is difficult, but I have local prototypes of the subset of the changes implemented for some time. To be clear, the sync overhaul, given @djmitche is taking lead on it, is not decreasing the probability of recurrence landing in 2022.

[gour]

I am taking the lead on the recurrence features. It's a big change, so putting timeline with limited resources is difficult, but I have local prototypes of the subset of the changes implemented for some time.

Great!

I've started to use Taskwarrior again...

To be clear, the sync overhaul, given @djmitche is taking lead on it, is not decreasing the probability of recurrence landing in 2022.

👍

[gour]

Just curious if, ten months (years :-) after, something is more clear in regard to recurrence support?

[gour]

I can only speak to the work on the sync overhaul, since I'm the person doing most of it. It's quite far from done, so I can't put a date on it -- and certainly, if other work needs to ship before that is ready, that's OK too.

I've settled on openSUSE Tumbleweed for which there is an old taskd package, using taskdctl script, but no systemd service. Is there any use trying to update the package, or there is simply not future for `taskd´?

[djmitche]

I don't think there's a future for taskd, but there might be a present -- if it's just a matter of adding a systemd script to the package and bumping the package version, that seems a reasonable thing to do.