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There are so many good things that it would be time consuming to make a list, but your general attitude and philosophy percolates through the product. What cou
by lloeki 10y ago
There are so many good things that it would be time consuming to make a list, but your general attitude and philosophy percolates through the product.
What could be better? Time management and planning (which is different from deadlines).
We're dreaming of some sort of "automatic milestones" (we use weeks) that allow us to put issues in "next time unit of work" (and eventually "subsequent time units of work") at the beginning of the week. Currently we create (and close) "%year-%week"-numbered milestones each week, for each relevant project, and that's extremely heavyweight to manage.
Such a workflow where you fill buckets by eyeballing tasks allows us to have a coarse grained estimate of when will things be done (weeks are quite a natural unit for that esp. when communicating to upper management or customers in a language they speak: "we don't have room for week 36 so this'll be done by week 37") as well as a bird's eye view with the cross-project milestones.
- jobvandervoort 10y agoA very interesting idea! Feel free to suggest a minimal implementation for this and we'd be happy to look into building it. I shy away from introducing too many new variables, so something that could leverage milestones would be probably the best. Not closely related, but you hit the keyword 'Time', we're planning to build time tracking for GitLab soon [0]. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/921 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/921
- lloeki 10y ago> A very interesting idea! Thanks! I have a boatload of those in store ;-) > Feel free to suggest a minimal implementation for this and we'd be happy to look into building it. I shy away from introducing too many new variables, so something that could leverage milestones would be probably the best. Agreed. I may look into it but I've got an unending backlog of FOSS things (with a couple pertaining to GitLab[0]) and while this is of high interest internally work on this is restricted by policy, so that's solely on my spare time. > Not closely related, but you hit the keyword 'Time', we're planning to build time tracking for GitLab soon Great! This is a significant feature to us. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&state=opened&utf8=&author_id=30516 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&sta...