Bring part of Time Tracking to CE

See this comment and my response: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/08/announcing-gitlab-enterprise-edition-premium/#comment-3045813029

Time tracking, since its release, has been hugely popular. The demand to make it available for everyone has been very strong. We've seen that teams of all sizes, not only teams > 100 members, were interested in this feature. Therefore, we are bringing the current state of time tracking (slash commands + sidebar information) to CE.

Advanced reporting related to time tracking will remain exclusive to EE Premium.

Proposal

• Move the slash commands and sidebar information to CE

References

• API for time tracking: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25861

@JobV This is how I see we could make Time tracking fully functional in CE.

CE:

• Slash commands on issues/MR.
• Filter issues and MR by estimate https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1407
• Export time tracking data at the issue level https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1347

Only in EE:

• Reports for Issues and MR https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1271
• User timesheet https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1406
• API https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1228

With those features, Time Tracking in CE would be functional and perfectly usable at the issue level. But advanced reporting and analysis (through the API) would be exclusive to EE Premium.

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@rdavila @brycepj can you investigate the amount of work to do it?

@regisF Looks like the front-end is the same. I may need to resolve some conflicts, but the front-end of this should be easy to backport.

@smcgivern pinging you as well.

@regisF sounds reasonable to me!

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Not sure if the API should stay EE only. The API should always give the features the web UI has. The API is used to make tools/apps around GitLab. This makes it hard since they cannot access functionality the instance provides via the web. /cc @rymai

Yeah, I think it makes more sense to move the API functionality in CE and all export functions be EE-only.

The API should always give the features the web UI has.

@razer6 @axil I agree

@razer6 @axil @rymai Good point.

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@brycepj @DouweM @rdavila Pinging, to do in 8.16

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I imagine the backend side of this will be more complicated, but I opened an MR with -- what I think is -- all of the frontend code for timetracking, for us to work from. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/8195

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Basic time tracking not being available in CE for us now is a show stopper in moving to a Githost instance.

Will the Githost "import from Gitlab.com" function also import the time tracking data when 8.16 is released?

@patricio do you know the answer to the question above? I think it will.

@regisF no, as far as I can see time tricking data is not exported.

Hope you guys can manage that for 8.16 , as that is our final hurdle to go to Githost :)

@regisF I think this needs an update ASAP

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@rvanlaak thanks for your comment, we'll see if we can make it.

@JobV I've created an issue about it: gitlab-com/githost#70 (closed)

I'm not sure who can help me with that so I'll just ping the different team leads, on Slack as well: @DouweM @smcgivern

@regisF what about the status of this issue?

@JobV the MR to bring time tracking to CE is awaiting final review. It should make it.

Thanks @regisF

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Hi @regisF Just deployed 8.16-RC3 and the feature seems not to be inside. Do you think it is normal?

!8195 (merged) is not merged yet right?

Hum... This explains that ! Sorry...

@rdavila @regisF can this be closed now?

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Merge commit: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/f208897ccbdb539eb16a72d32cce68881eaffca7

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