[nag] Private tasks, assigning tasks

[Jan Schneider]

I was going to finally make some use of the, already existing, private  
flag in the tasks table. The private flag would work the same like in  
Kronolith where I added such a flag recently. It would hide certain  
task details from shared tasklists even if other people have read  
access to that list.

We currently don't store the task owner/creator in the database,  
though we have a task_owner column, but that's for referencing the  
task's list. Thus we can't determine whether the tasks owner/creator  
tries to access the task information or a different user with read  
access. We need to add a new column to the table for that purpose.

Adding such a column would also allow us to assign tasks to other  
users, similar to how we can delegate events in Kronolith. My question  
now is, is that sufficient, or do we need to assign tasks to, for  
example, groups? Also, should we apply the same logic like with  
delegation, where users need to give other users delegation  
permissions to some of their calendars if they want to allow them to  
delegate events?
Or do we maybe need a separate column, so that assigning tasks is less  
restrictive and doesn't require changing tasklist permissions, for  
example when using Nag in the context of project management?

Jan.

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