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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:01:43 +0200
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Hi Nicolas

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm clearly no Agenda specialist. I thought a DEADLINE would end
> a repeated event already.

No, DONE shifts it to the repeat date and like this it will never end.

> If it's not the case, does it make sense to implement it too?

In this case I would vote for to use a new property.

An example like

* TODO send weekly report
  DEADLINE: <2013-07-27 Sat 18:00 ++1w -1d>

could then be terminated with

* TODO send weekly report until end of terminated contract
  DEADLINE: <2013-07-27 Sat 18:00 ++1w -1d>
  END_DATE: <2013-12-31 Tue>

When implementing this, consider also whether the END_DATE should be an
agenda entry on its own and of which kind, warning period etc. I tried
to make an example that shows this issue.

Michael