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Time tracking? Time to move off gitlab.

by stonogo 10y ago

BHSPitMonkey 10y ago
Is there a reason this feature offends you so?
- malinens 10y ago
  Programmers hate when management forces to track their spent time. It's very annoying and unhelpful to anybody
  - random_rr 10y ago
    It's extraordinarily helpful and is the sign of a mature, professional developer.
  - vetinari 10y ago
    It's helpful. when you have to quote estimates to your customer, this estimate is what is going to be really billed and then you want to know, how much you were off, whether you actually have some margin. By comparing estimates to actuals, you can get better at your estimates. It can be annoying, but for example, redmine-style time tracking in checkin comments are quite unobtrusive.
    - robinhood 10y ago
      Do you use this feature with Redmine? (time spent in commit messages)
      - vetinari 10y ago
        Yes, although some colleagues prefer logging their time separately. The commit message allows only for specifying hours, the separate time-sheet entry also date and activity (i.e. designing, testing, documenting, and other non-strictly programming activities). It also allows to specify the same task several times, without having multiple commits :)
        robinhood 10y ago
        The concept of "activity" is interesting. I've created an issue to talk about it, thank you. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1304 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1304
  - unethical_ban 10y ago
    Well I work at a company that has requirements and wants them done on deadlines. It's not evil. Tracking time against estimates is helpful so we can know if estimates are correct.
  - elygre 10y ago
    One would assume that if a company wants to track the employee's spent time, they already found a way of doing this. GitLab is only providing a different, and perhaps easier, way of doing it.
sytse 10y ago
It is an optional feature and it doesn't add much cruft in the UI if you don't use it.
- stonogo 10y ago
  There is no such thing as an optional feature once middle management gets hold of it.
luibelgo 10y ago
As a developer forced to use a very crappy web-based 1990 time tracking tool, this is simply awesome. We track times to bill clients in service requests
- sytse 10y ago
  With GitLab you can time track like it's 1999! (sing it like the Prince song)

Time tracking? Time to move off gitlab.

by stonogo 10y ago

Time tracking? Time to move off gitlab.

BHSPitMonkey 10y ago

Is there a reason this feature offends you so?

malinens 10y ago
Programmers hate when management forces to track their spent time. It's very annoying and unhelpful to anybody
- random_rr 10y ago
  It's extraordinarily helpful and is the sign of a mature, professional developer.
- vetinari 10y ago
  It's helpful. when you have to quote estimates to your customer, this estimate is what is going to be really billed and then you want to know, how much you were off, whether you actually have some margin. By comparing estimates to actuals, you can get better at your estimates. It can be annoying, but for example, redmine-style time tracking in checkin comments are quite unobtrusive.
  - robinhood 10y ago
    Do you use this feature with Redmine? (time spent in commit messages)
    - vetinari 10y ago
      Yes, although some colleagues prefer logging their time separately. The commit message allows only for specifying hours, the separate time-sheet entry also date and activity (i.e. designing, testing, documenting, and other non-strictly programming activities). It also allows to specify the same task several times, without having multiple commits :)
      - robinhood 10y ago
        The concept of "activity" is interesting. I've created an issue to talk about it, thank you. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1304 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1304
- unethical_ban 10y ago
  Well I work at a company that has requirements and wants them done on deadlines. It's not evil. Tracking time against estimates is helpful so we can know if estimates are correct.
- elygre 10y ago
  One would assume that if a company wants to track the employee's spent time, they already found a way of doing this. GitLab is only providing a different, and perhaps easier, way of doing it.

sytse 10y ago

It is an optional feature and it doesn't add much cruft in the UI if you don't use it.

stonogo 10y ago
There is no such thing as an optional feature once middle management gets hold of it.

luibelgo 10y ago

As a developer forced to use a very crappy web-based 1990 time tracking tool, this is simply awesome. We track times to bill clients in service requests

sytse 10y ago
With GitLab you can time track like it's 1999! (sing it like the Prince song)