Stefan Küng wrote:
> Peter Mounce wrote:
>
>> We use the bugtraq:* properties to integrate with our issue-tracker,
>> Gemini (from countersoft.com). It works a treat.
>>
>> We'd like to also use the system (TSVN, issue-tracker integration) to
>> track time spent on code. So we could write in the logs something
>> like Issue #54, 4h 30m - there'd be a bugtraq:timeregex, perhaps, to
>> track time per commit message. Or perhaps extend the current regex so
>> each issue could have an optional time-match of the form {hours}h
>> {minutes}m. (Personally, I wish people would only ever link a commit
>> to one issue).
>>
>> It would be lovely if TSVN could support that, and then extend the log
>> window to show the time-tracking, and also extend the statistics
>> display to show the data, where available.
>
> While I have a pretty good idea on how the extended log window would
> look like (an additional column showing the time), I have no idea
> how/where that information should be shown in the statistics dialog:
> there's nothing in there which shows the bug ID's now.
>
>> We could then hook that information into our post-commit hook, which
>> talks to Gemini (well, in actual fact, we wouldn't need TSVN to do
>> anything for this, but it would be lovely to see the information in
>> both systems if we wanted), and get easier time-tracking for our
>> coding. We would, though, like it to be possible for our post-commit
>> hook to pull its configuration details from the bugtraq properties,
>> instead of maintaining it in a separate config file for the hook.
>>
>> I'm only musing, here; I know this is hardly a complete
>> specification. However, this is kind of how the original bugtraq spec
>> was drawn up, as I recall - people talking about it.
>
> I see some problems with implementing this.
>
> If the time-spent (ts) is on the same line or even intermixed with the
> actual bug ID, then we'd have to catch this with the bugtraq:logregex.
> But it it's standalone, then we'd have to introduce a separate regex
> property.
>
> Also, how should we indicate this in the commit dialog? We already use a
> different color, bold and italic letters.
>
> How many bug tracking systems out there have the ability to specify a
> time? If it's just the one you're using, I don't think it's worth
> introducing this in TSVN, because as you already noticed you could
> introduce your very own property (e.g. gemini:timeregex) and do the rest
> from hook scripts.
This could be useful for us as well. The bug-tracking system we
use (TestTrack from seapine) also tracks the amount of time
spend on an incident.
Thanks,
Joseph
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Received on Mon Dec 4 20:13:28 2006