Teaching Case — A Plan That Cannot Be Scheduled At All
Draft waits for review, review waits for rework, rework waits for draft. That is a loop, it has no schedule — there is no first task — and Mermaid will draw it anyway, in colour, with dates. Here nothing is drawn on a time axis at all, because no date exists to draw, and the engine names the loop in the order you trace it.
Make it your own.
title "Rework loop"
start 2026-02-02
calendar mon-fri
section "Copy"
task draft "Draft" 5d after rework
task review "Review" 3d after draft
task rework "Rework" 4d after review
task ship "Publish" 1d after review