From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Cc: Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Subject: Re: Remaining Work Report
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:39:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873971jyoh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87havhk5qn.fsf@gmail.com> (Myles English's message of "Tue, 15 May 2012 13:07:12 +0100")
Forgot to copying this to the list:
>> On Tue, 15 May 2012 13:07:12 +0100, Myles English said:
> Hi Sebastian,
I mean 'Sebastien'.
> Sorry it has taken a long time to reply; I have been customising my
> emacs, or has it been customising me...?
>> On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:38:12 +0200, Sebastien Vauban said:
>> Hi Myles,
>> Myles English wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:33:17 +0100, Sebastien Vauban said:
>>> > The question I'm trying to give an answer to is: *what's the
>>> > remaining number of hours (or days) to finish my project*?
> So that is your goal.
>>> To exclude DONE items from the columnview I moved the Effort property out of
>>> the way to the Old_Effort property when the state changes to DONE:
> [function snipped]
>>> Unlike your example I made heavy use of inline tasks and also wanted heading
>>> numbers instead of asterisks, so that the final table looks like a table of
>>> contents with estimated times remaining. I had to do some more things to
>>> achieve this and can elaborate if you like.
>> I finally spend some time to look at your answer, and give a feedback.
>> First, I really thank you for your answer. It really is interesting to see how
>> others tackle with the same (kind of) problem.
> You're welcome. It helps to justify the amount of time I spent on it if
> I can share it with someone else.
>> Second, about your "workaround". It does not satisfy me (renaming the property
>> Effort to Old_Effort upon transition change to DONE)[1] because:
>> - What happens if you reopen the task, clock some time on it, and close it?
>> A new move of the property will occur, with a nil (hence, null?) value?
>> Your Old_Effort will be overwritten?
> Yes something like that, the function I posted is not consistent or
> even reliable really. It was intended as a starting point.
>> - My goal is to show, in a table, the progress made on all tasks (TODO, STRT,
>> DONE), and moreover to compare "spent time" (CLOCK) vs "estimated time"
>> (Effort). Hence, I need to have the effort property at all times[2].
> Okay so your goal has changed and looks like it would be approximately
> double the work of what I needed. When you reopen a task presumably you
> would re-estimate the effort too which could lead to complications. You
> could may be consider never reopening a task and always starting a new
> one?
>> Do you have, maybe, an alternative way for those?
> No, but if you look at the functions I sent originally and diff them
> against the org- functions mentioned in their descriptions then you will
> see what I had to change, which was not that much really, and maybe you
> can build on it.
> I would be interested to hear if you make something great with this.
> --
> `--[ Myles ]
--
`--[ Myles ]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-15 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-19 13:33 Remaining Work Report Sebastien Vauban
2012-03-22 14:33 ` Myles English
2012-03-24 14:28 ` Manish
2012-03-26 10:49 ` Myles English
2012-03-26 13:03 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-05-03 14:38 ` Sebastien Vauban
[not found] ` <87havhk5qn.fsf@gmail.com>
2012-05-15 14:39 ` Myles English [this message]
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