RE: [bpel4people] NEW ISSUE: Priority of a Task and Potential Owner Privilege (1/3)

["Rickayzen, Alan" <alan.rickayzen@sap.com>]

Hi Aliriza,

It seems to me that it there will be conflicting interests between:

1. business administrator

2. process stakeholder

3. task owner

4. task stakeholder

5. task stakeholder's boss juggling different tasks and activities.

In my opinion all should be able to change the priority since a clash of interests cannot be avoided and each needs the flexibility.

The whole point of the priority-change is the transparency that this supports not the authorization so I'd prefer keeping it as is.

Best regards,

Alan Rickayzen

 

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From: Alireza Farhoush [mailto:alireza@tibco.com]
Sent: Monday 23 February 2009 16:33
To: bpel4people@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [bpel4people] NEW ISSUE: Priority of a Task and Potential Owner Privilege (1/3)

I am following up on the discussion we had during our last meeting. I have outlined below a change (1/3) to the WS-HumanTask Specification Version 1.1 document that I proposed.

 

Regards,

 

Alireza Farhoush

 

 

TARGET: WS-HumanTask Specification Version 1.1 CD02

 

DESCRIPTION:

In Section 3.1, ‘Generic Human Roles’, in the 4th paragraph, a statement reads:

 

“...potential owners can influence the progress of the task, for example by changing the priority of the task.”

 

Shouldn’t changing a task priority be performed only by the stakeholder or the business administrator? Multiple potential owners could independently modify the priority as they see fit (and perhaps never acquire a task).

 

PROPOSAL:

Limit the privilege of changing task priority to Task Stakeholder and Business Administrator.