/spend markup but no total ?
Problem to solve
I can't bill my client for time spent by my devs on his project.
Why have a /spend markup but no total spend ?
Only /estimate shown in issues. I don't believe I'm the first person to notice this omission.
Intended users
All users but especially dev's and managers.
User experience goal
User should be able to see total amount of dev time spent on projects.
Proposal
Simply parse all to-do's and issues for '/spend' strings and then split the number from the string. Then add up all hrs, mins, secs etc... for a total.
Display total on issues page or even better - analytics page ...
Further details
Permissions and Security
Presumably any dev that works on the project should be able to see the /spend and /estimate total. Ditto managers etc..
Documentation
I personally found the documentation on Time Tracking to either be old or misleading. The docs didn't match the interface.
Availability & Testing
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
What is the type of buyer?
Is this a cross-stage feature?
Links / references
Activity
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Hey @dbee01 could you clarify a little further please?
The total time logged on an issue or merge request is displayed in the sidebar:
Is this not what you're looking for?
assigned to @leetickett
Hi Lee,
I can use the /spend markup and it'll show when I click through to the individual issue. Which you've demonstrated.
But if I want to calculate the overall time spent on all issues in a project. I'll need all the /spend in a list or a total of all the spends.
The only way I can calculate total time spent is to markup each issue with Then sum each issue manually.
Hope that explains it. I can screenshot it for you if you wish.
Thanks,
Dara
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Got it. I wonder where we might show it?
The project home screen already has quite a few metrics (like repo size, # commits etc)
The issues page itself perhaps at the top?
We need to not forget about merge requests too. I'm not sure if I would like to see them in the same place, or if having to visit two places would be acceptable.
Let me know if you have any thoughts/ideas.
Thanks
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Hi Lee,
Thanks.
IMO it would have to be the issues page. Also, since a dev will probably bill a client every few weeks. There would need to be some sort of calendar function.
So you calculate the /spend for the last, say 28 days on an on-going project.
At the moment I use the /estimate markup and then screenshot the Issues->list pages to the client. While adding up the /estimate manually to give him/her an hourly total.
It'd be handy if gitlab handled this natively IMO.
Thanks for following up with this BTW Lee,
Dara
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Reporting is something I plan on working on later this year, there are already a few issues for that.
First we have to finish exposing some backend graphql endpoints to give us access to the data...
Then we can build a frontend to consume it.
I think the first step/iteration will be to show the breakdown against single MR/issue #271409 (closed)
Then hopefully we'll be looking at project level
And eventually more global/user level etc: #20843
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