Urgency

- Age-dependet urgency calculation now normalizes.

doc/man/taskrc.5.in

@@ -961,10 +961,9 @@ Urgency coefficients for annotations
 .RS
 Urgency coefficients for the age of tasks
 .RE
-.B urgency.age.max=0.0
+.B urgency.age.max=365
 .RS
-Maximum (or minimum if negative) urgency a task can reach due to aging. If
+Maximum age in days. After this number of days has elapsed, the urgency of a task won't increase any more because of aging.
-this is set to zero, the term will be unlimited.
 .RE
 
 The coefficients reflect the relative importance of the various terms in the

src/Config.cpp

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ std::string Config::_defaults =
   "urgency.tags.coefficient=2.0                   # Urgency coefficients for tags\n"
   "urgency.annotations.coefficient=1.0            # Urgency coefficients for annotations\n"
   "urgency.age.coefficient=0                      # Urgency coefficients for age\n"
-  "urgency.age.max=0                              # Maximum urgency offset for age\n"
+  "urgency.age.max=365                            # Maximum age in days\n"
   "\n"
   "#urgency.user.project.foo.coefficient=5.0      # Urgency coefficients for 'foo' project\n"
   "#urgency.user.tag.foo.coefficient=5.0          # Urgency coefficients for 'foo' tag\n"

src/Task.cpp

@@ -1231,8 +1231,7 @@ float Task::urgency_c () const
   value += urgency_next ()        * context.config.getReal ("urgency.next.coefficient");
   value += urgency_due ()         * context.config.getReal ("urgency.due.coefficient");
   value += urgency_blocking ()    * context.config.getReal ("urgency.blocking.coefficient");
-  value += urgency_age             (context.config.getReal ("urgency.age.coefficient"),
+  value += urgency_age ()         * context.config.getReal ("urgency.age.coefficient");
-                                    context.config.getReal ("urgency.age.max"));
 
   // Tag- and project-specific coefficients.
   std::vector <std::string> all;
@@ -1402,24 +1401,22 @@ float Task::urgency_due () const
 }
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-float Task::urgency_age (float coefficient, float max) const
+float Task::urgency_age () const
 {
-  if (coefficient == 0) {
+  if (has ("entry"))
-    return 0.0;
-  }
-  else if (has ("entry"))
   {
     Date now;
     Date entry (get_date ("entry"));
+    int   age  = (now - entry) / 86400;  // in days
+    float max  = context.config.getReal ("urgency.age.max");
 
-    int age    = (now - entry) / 86400;
+    if (max == 0)
-    float result = age * coefficient;
+      return 1.0;
-    if (max == 0)    // unlimited
+
-      return result;
+    if (age > max)
-    else if (max > 0)
+      return 1.0;
-      return (result > max) ? max : result;
     else
-      return (result < max) ? max : result;
+      return (1.0 * age/max);
   }
 
   return 0.0;

src/Task.h

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ private:
   inline float urgency_next () const;
   inline float urgency_due () const;
   inline float urgency_blocking () const;
-  inline float urgency_age (float, float) const;
+  inline float urgency_age () const;
 };
 
 #endif