Feature #325

add "task duration" parameter

Added by David Patrick 287 days ago. Updated 282 days ago.

Status:New Start:11/26/2009
Priority:Normal Due date:
To:Paul Beckingham % Done:

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Category:core Spent time: -
Target version:2.1.x - Wakizashi

Description

to allow estimates of how long a task might take.
This is a new attribute, and establishing the parameters will take some discussion, as taskwarrior does not (yet) deal in time-of-day. The easiest (and least flexible) option would be to allow only values representing duration in hours.
It should probably look something like;

task add invent foolicious pancake mix proj:bakesale dur:4.5h

Project summaries would benefit from summing "estimated time required", and this number could be used to generate a warning when one task is about to be created that conflicts with an existing dated and durationned task.

Related issues

related to Bug #189 "stop" annotates start and stop times Closed 07/07/2009

History

Updated by Paul Beckingham 287 days ago

We already use durations for recurrence periods, and they look like this:

task add take out trash due:tomorrow recur:1w

In addition to "1w" we support varied things like:

1d
day
daily
1w
weekly
1m
monthly
1y
yearly
annually

and so on. It would be trivial to extend that support to include:

4h
23min
10:23

and so on.

Updated by David Patrick 287 days ago

We like trivial !
go with that !

It may have interesting ramifications when applied to repeating tasks, though..

djp

Updated by David Patrick 282 days ago

  • Subject changed from add "duration" parameter to add "task duration" parameter

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