Quoting [Andre Merzky] (Aug 12 2008):
And there are more... All options have pro and cons. We had that discussion for a long time as we designed the task model. If you are interested in gazillions of mails running circles, I can dig them out of the archive ;-)
Do you happen to know on which mailinglist and the name of the discussion? Then I will certainly check them.
Sorry, forgot to answer this one... Please have a look at http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/saga-rg/ In particular, in October/November 2005 we have been discussing the task model (again). The discussion there is long, but may motivate some of our design choices. I could not find the original list of all task model options we came up with - that must date sometime before that, and may well have been on a different mailing list... Cheers, Andre. -- Nothing is ever easy.