RFC: Timeline event packing #1878
Description
Problem:
It's somewhat difficult to handle long-term and short-term events overlapping in the timeline in user-facing situations.
Proposal:
Some of this confusion can be removed by implementing predictable conflict resolution.
We can adjust the timestamp value of the longer event to start at the end of shorter/previous element's timestamp + expiration and shorten expiration of the longer event by the amount shortened.
This packing shouldn't be done for equally-long events, neither should a shorter event be shortened.
Before:
| | | | | | | | | |
|────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────►
┌───────────┐
│Temperature│
└───────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Temperature (long-term) │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
After:
| | | | | | | | | |
|────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────►
┌───────────┐┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│Temperature││ Temperature (long-term) │
└───────────┘└──────────────────────────────────────┘
Are there any potential use-cases where this might not work out as intended?