Time Tracking: Keep original estimate
Description
(Include problem, use cases, benefits, and/or goals)
When reporting on milestones' progress, it is not possible to determine the progress accuracy against the original estimates. It's useful to compare the figures for projected vs corrected estimate to learn and adjust for following milestones.
Usually what project managers want to know in projects I'm involved is:
- How much effort is left to complete a milestone?
- What's the total effort required for a milestone?
- Has the total amount of effort has changed and by how much?
Proposal
Keep track of the original estimate as an additional metadata field in the issue. Expose this field in the Gitlab API and/or display this information against the milestone progress next to the actual progress.