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Time tracking?

Time to move off gitlab.

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Is there a reason this feature offends you so?

Programmers hate when management forces to track their spent time. It's very annoying and unhelpful to anybody

It's helpful. when you have to quote estimates to your customer, this estimate is what is going to be really billed and then you want to know, how much you were off, whether you actually have some margin. By comparing estimates to actuals, you can get better at your estimates.

It can be annoying, but for example, redmine-style time tracking in checkin comments are quite unobtrusive.

Do you use this feature with Redmine? (time spent in commit messages)

Yes, although some colleagues prefer logging their time separately. The commit message allows only for specifying hours, the separate time-sheet entry also date and activity (i.e. designing, testing, documenting, and other non-strictly programming activities). It also allows to specify the same task several times, without having multiple commits :)

The concept of "activity" is interesting. I've created an issue to talk about it, thank you. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1304

It's extraordinarily helpful and is the sign of a mature, professional developer.

Well I work at a company that has requirements and wants them done on deadlines. It's not evil. Tracking time against estimates is helpful so we can know if estimates are correct.

One would assume that if a company wants to track the employee's spent time, they already found a way of doing this. GitLab is only providing a different, and perhaps easier, way of doing it.

As a developer forced to use a very crappy web-based 1990 time tracking tool, this is simply awesome. We track times to bill clients in service requests

With GitLab you can time track like it's 1999! (sing it like the Prince song)

It is an optional feature and it doesn't add much cruft in the UI if you don't use it.

There is no such thing as an optional feature once middle management gets hold of it.

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