Comment 6 for bug 906516

I am sorry, I wasn't in good shape somehow and made many mistakes in my comments.

1 & 2) 2) The right word should be not used so often instead of useless. My point was that I get confused about the coloring. I expected to be something like:
 * green => you have a lot of time to do it, don't worry
 * yellow => you should be actively working on it
 * red => deadline, work 24hour on it

Using this assumption I was confused by your algorithm. You used it differently: (computed on the expected duration of task)
 * green => you don't have to work on it
 * yellow => work on it
 * red => deadline

3) Yes, it is a matter of taste. There is underlying, unwritten concept of 2 weeks - date 2 weeks before is refered to "in 13 days" and so on. Therefore I choose 2 weeks and magic constant 14. The algorithm was written from top of my head and it should demonstrate the math behind it. Yes, you are right, it should be used today instead of startdate.

I suppose it would be better to implement this feature as a plugin (according to this discussion). Please, try to catch me on IRC, jabber and we can discuss implementation details of changing plugin API to allow creating plugin like this.