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Work package IDs should be randomly generated UUIDs

Added by Manuel Stahl over 5 years ago

OpenProject seems to be an impressive well designed product. But there is something I think could be improved for a better user experience. Right now the work package IDs are monotonically increasing numbers.
This has a few drawbacks:

  • The number seems to imply an ordering that is not true. In daily work packages are typically not created with a strict order in mind.
  • The number seems to imply an importance. Shorter numbers are easier to remember and seem to imply higher importance. This is typically not the case.
  • Using only decimal digits leads to longer numbers than using e.g. hex

My proposal is to use something similar to git hashes. In projects with only a few work packages only the first maybe 4 characters are enough to be unique. In larger projects longer prefixes can be used.


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