Activity Digest: May 2016

This is an ongoing series of activity reports, published monthly, to highlight activity in our projects. Here is what happened in May 2016. This is not a complete list of all activity, just work that results in a non-trivial change. For a full list, see the git history of all the projects.

Summary

The main focus for May is getting Timewarrior ready for an alpha release. The purpose of an alpha release is to gather feedback that guides the subsequent release. Timewarrior is a new project that introduces new concepts. This new functionality needs to be refined before a beta release.

The Timewarrior bug tracker is now open for business.

Additionally, the libshared library is being improved. This is a Git submodule that nearly all the projects share, and helps with code reuse. Most importantly, fixing bugs in libshared will fix bugs in all projects, without a lot of manual patching.

Date
2016-05-01- Task: Deprecated the new-uuid verbosity token
- Timewarrior: Added the + indicator on charts, for open intervals
- Timewarrior: Charts stop rendering at ’now’ instead of EOD
2016-05-02- Timewarrior: Added support for the :lastweek hint
- Timewarrior: Corrected the :day hint
- Timewarrior: Finalized the API document
2016-05-03- Timewarrior: Clarified the definition and added help for intervals
- Timewarrior: Added track command
- Timewarrior: The track command delegates to start when no range is specified
2016-05-05- Timewarrior: Added config command
- Timewarrior: The config command supports the :yes hint for confirmation override
- Timewarrior: The config command exits with code 1 when a change has no effect
- Timewarrior: Rules parsing simplified - fewer special cases, simpler rule names
- Timewarrior: Added summary report mockup
2016-05-06- Timewarrior: Added show command, for consistency with Taskwarrior, and soon Taskserver
- Timewarrior: The command timew config with no arguments, delegates to the show command
2016-05-08- Task: Fixed the countdown format that was only showing dates in the past
2016-05-09- Timewarrior: Added Range::encloses to detect exclusions like ’lunch'
2016-05-10- Timewarrior: Fixed bug where all command line arguments were tokenized, leading to extra spaces - a familiar Taskwarrior bug
2016-05-11- Timewarrior: Exclusions now properly anchor < and > at midnight
2016-05-12- Timewarrior: Added Range::is_open which simplifies a lot of code
2016-05-13- Timewarrior: Added gaps command
- Timewarrior: Added assorted tests of the gaps command
- Timewarrior: Now loads and uses custom tag colors
- Timewarrior: Now that the config command is working, lots of new tests are possible, and were added
2016-05-14- libshared: Duration needed precision formatting that only showed hours
- libshared: Bug fixed that allowed a time of HH:MM:
- Timewarrior: When recorded time exceeds available time, do not report negative remaining time
- Timewarrior: Default command now summarizes all contiguous open intervals
- Timewarrior: In preparation for an undo command, now records all data-changing transactions in an undo.data file
- Timewarrior: Fixed bug where total available time on a report didn’t add up
- Timewarrior: Now uses precision hour formatting
- Timewarrior: Added range asserts for debugging
2016-05-16- Guides: Taskserver Troubleshooting PDF updated
- OSCON 2016: Taskwarrior stickers on the table (Want one? Ask)
- Timewarrior: The stop command now accepts an override stop time
- Timewarrior: Filter is now applied when loading data
2016-05-17- Timewarrior: Added proper argument scanning, instead of simply counting arguments, for identifying the default command
2016-05-18
- libshared: Datetime was oddly missing accessors for days, hours, minutes, seconds
- libshared: Duration wasn’t consistent with Datetime
- Timewarrior: Added a refresh script to update holiday files
- Timewarrior: Documented how to update holiday files
2016-05-19- Timewarrior: Added week report
- Timewarrior: Supports reports.<type>.summary to control display of the summary data
- Timewarrior: Supports reports.<type>.lines to control number of lines shown per day
2016-05-20- #1827: project:ide is not allowed fixed
- #1828: dateformat lacks a flag to display day of week fixed
- Flod: Shrunk and simplified tinderbox report
- Timewarrior: Charts now highlight current day, and current hour
- Timewarrior: Added the day, week and month reports to the documentation, with examples
- Timewarrior: Fixed bug where the summary report projected open intervals into the future
- Timewarrior: Added mockup of week report
- taskwarrior.org: Added Windows 10 to the download page
- taskwarrior.org: Added plan details
2016-05-21- libshared: Added Datetime support for 12am which was oddly missing
- Timewarrior: Supports theme.colors.holiday
- Timewarrior: Added csv.py extension to export data in CSV format
- Timewarrior: Fixed assorted quoting problems on the command line, and in the data files
- Timewarrior: The day report not longer shows totals by default
- Timewarrior: Supports reports.<type>.totals to control display of day totals
- Timewarrior: Command line args like 9 are now assumed to be hours 9:00
- Timewarrior: Supports report.<type>.<label> where <label> is one of: month, week, weekday or day to control the date axis
- taskwarrior.org: Timewarrior adds initial documentation, with a lot more to come
2016-05-22- Timewarrior: Shows holidays in a different color on charts
- taskwarrior.org: Added new search features to the Tools page, which now features automated data scraping, to find new Taskwarrior tools.
- taskwarrior.org: All site contributors now listed online. Thank you all!
- taskwarrior.org: Added MSYS2 to the download page
2016-05-26- Timewarrior: In :debug mode, shows data I/O details
- Timewarrior: Added a debug() function to handle switchable debug output
2016-05-27- [#10: Two line tags causes false entry in
database](https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior/issues/10) fixed
2016-05-28- Flod: Removed unsupported bootstrap badge styles in the tinderbox report
- Timewarrior: Supports debug.indicator = <string> prefix to identify debug output
- Timewarrior: Supports reports.<type>.range setting to provide the default range hints for the report
- Timewarrior: In :debug mode shows hint evaluation details
- Timewarrior: Fixed a test that was sensitive to the number of configuration defaults
- Timewarrior: Fixed broken :lastweek hint
- Timewarrior: Supports reports.gaps.range, and has a default
- Timewarrior: In :debug mode shows runtime data
- taskwarrior.org: Update the Tools page data, after filtering updated were pulled
2016-05-29- Timewarrior: All reports now support the :blank hint
- Timewarrior: Supports reports.<type>.hours = all|auto setting to control the x-axis
- Timewarrior: All reports now have default settings for displaying various elements
- Timewarrior: Supports rc.<name>=<value> command line overrides, like Taskwarrior
- taskwarrior.org: Added 301 redirects to list of common 404s
2016-05-30- libshared: Datetime::sameQuarter supported, needed by Timewarrior
- Task: Now supports the QUARTER virtual tag
- Task: Now takes advantage of the Datetime::sameX methods
- Timewarrior: Now shows two timestamps in a minimalist way, so instead of this:
Started 2016-05-30T18:29:43 Current 2016-05-30T17:04:02
It now omits redundant information and shows this:
Started 2016-05-30T18:29:43 Current 17:04:02
- Timewarrior: Added the :ids hint
- Timewarrior: The summary report supports :ids
- Timewarrior: Supports reports.<type>.holidays = yes|no to optionally display relevant holidays
- Timewarrior: When showing holidays, adds the country code, for those who use multiple holiday files
- Timewarrior: Fixed tests that use relative times, and are therefore behave differently when run at different times of the day
- Timewarrior: Fixed a bug where range subtraction auto-closed the result ranges
- taskwarrior.org: Added QUARTER virtual tag to docs