Task lifecycle
Six stages from request to merge.
A task goes through six stages, and all six are always visible — together with what each of them produced:
- Request — you described what is needed.
- Formulation — the analyst asks clarifications and brings the formulation for approval.
- Decomposition — splitting into subtasks.
- Development — building the subtasks wave by wave.
- Review — a person checks the changes.
- Merged — the changes have gone into the repositories.
The stage strip
In the task card the stages are shown as a single strip: completed ones carry a tick, the current one is highlighted, and under each is what happened there: the request date, “approved”, how many subtasks, “7 of 7 done”, “awaiting a decision since 13 Aug”. Stages the task has not reached yet promise nothing.
The heading above the strip puts the position into words: “Stages · 5 of 6 · now review”. For a stopped task it says at which stage the task was stopped, and the strip colours exactly that stage.
In the task list
In the task table on the project home page, the same path is folded into six squares and a stage label: green — passed, blue — under way now, red — stopped. This way you see where every task stands at once, without opening any of them.