What tools should we have for management of large number of tasks?

[inahga]

Since each task represents a single measurement to be taken, it's plausible that large applications may have hundreds or even thousands of tasks. A simple list of tasks would not be sufficient for organizing and navigating through them.

Even for smaller numbers of tasks, tasks would benefit from a logical grouping (e.g. these tasks are for my application Foo, and those are for application Bar).

Some possible strategies off the top of my head:

• Task groups. Alternative names: namespace, project.
• Task tags.

Bonus: it should be designed to make way for a future more sophisticated permissions model (e.g. Alice is a developer for Foo, should only be able to manage Foo tasks).

Without this, we run the risk of people organizing by creating multiple Accounts, which may complicate billing.

[jbr]

This is the sort of thing that we might want to wait until we have users with usage patterns we can learn from