Pending task with end date

[notklea]

Why can't a pending task have an end date?

I think it should be allowed since it then allows having tasks for events that for example, take 2 hours, you'd be able to set the start and end dates accordingly.

Maybe i should not use taskwarrior for recording events too, but i do

[linuxcaffe]

That's what until:date is for

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[notklea]

kind of, but doesn't address the issue of being able to mark tasks as done without having to manually filter between all deleted tasks after the fact (i can't carry my computer everywhere and most of the time update taskwarrior after events have happened)

[djmitche]

Taskwarrior isn't really a calendaring app, so you're right that this is an awkward fit.

I'm not sure what you mean by filtering, but that sounds like something that could be captured in a crontask that runs every hour and marks "done" for tasks for events that have ended.

[smemsh]

I think literally pending task is one without an end date. and completed task is one with an end date. from src/Task.cpp:

  // Completed tasks need an end date, so inherit the entry date.
  if ((status == Task::completed || status == Task::deleted) && (!has("end") || get("end") == ""))
    setAsNow("end"); 
  
  // Pending tasks cannot have an end date, remove if present
  if ((status == Task::pending) && (get("end") != "")) remove("end");