After some testing, I am beginning to feel that there is really no consistent way of configuring the plugins *TimingAndEstimationPlugin, EstimationToolsPlugin and TracJsGanttPlugin *
*In what way should I use and interpret "estimatedhours"?* I have tried 3 different approaches: 1. Interpret "estimatedhours" as a dynamically changed field, in the meaning of "most recently estimated TOTAL time" It seems odd to re-estimate with a total time, maybe you already worked 100 hours on a ticket, then the obvious thing you want to do is estimate how many hours are left (not the total). 2. Interpret "estimatedhours" as a dynamically changed field, in the meaning of "most recently estimated REMAINING time" This breaks two things as far as I can tell: a) In the last row of a custom query, TimingAndEstimationPlugin takes care of summarizing the "estimatedhours" for any custom query. And in the same row, it provides a remaining time result also, which is "estimatedhours" - "totalhours", summarized for the query. Obviously this doesn't make sense if "estimatedhours" means remaining hours. b) TracJsGanttPlugin wants needs an input for an estimate of the full ticket. No field contains that number with this setup. 3. Interpret "estimatedhours" as a fixed field, in the meaning of "INITIAL estimated total time". This doesn't make much sense for the various graphs unless you add another custom field "remaininghours" to mean the "recently estimated remaining time". But this solution does still not provide consistent interpretation: a) For custom queries TimingAndEstimationPlugin still sums up "estimatedhours" - "totalhours", so this number will often be different from the field "remainingtime" (though they claim to give you the same information) b) Also TracJsGanttPlugin can not show the actual situation since no single field provides the "currently estimated total time" which would be the input it needs for "fields.estimate" So either I am not understanding these things right or everyone is just accepting to live with such inconsistencies? regards, Kristian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
