Two views rather than one chart, because the data forced it: measured on
the live database, 1 of 5 live cards has a target date and none has both
dates. target_date is client-owned and optional; start_date is only set on
Inbox acceptance. A conventional Gantt would render almost empty.
So Now/Next/Later is the default and works with zero dates, and the
timeline earns its place as clients set dates. From Dave's Gantt reference
it takes the quarter header, the Today marker, project grouping with the
client's colour, and the per-row completion percentage — which maps onto
checklist progress, the one honest source for it. The faint full-width
track is load-bearing rather than decorative: it makes a sparse chart read
as unscheduled instead of broken.
Drag-to-reschedule always writes an activity row naming the owner, because
target_date belongs to the client. A developer silently moving a date the
client chose is the failure the activity log exists to prevent.
Completes the plan set for phases 1 through 5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dave
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