Activity Digest: March 2017

This is an ongoing series of activity reports, published monthly, to highlight activity in our projects. Here is what happened in March 2017. 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

Timewarrior bug fixes are bringing the 1.1.0 release closer. We are down to 7 open issues currently needing to be fixed.

Taskwarrior is undergoing big changes to incorporate the new recurrence features. This leads to instability, so if anyone is using the 2.6.0 development branch, this would be a good time to stop.

The Taskwarrior 2.6.0 branch has a stable tag which indicates the last commit where all tests passed on all platforms.

The libshared project got a major update to the date and duration handling features, fixing bugs and providing a consistent implementation for Taskwarrior and Timewarrior to use.

Date
2017-03-02- Flod: Now generates a project summary page listing latest status of all projects
- Task: Properly captures errno in CmdEdit
2017-03-04- libshared: Datetime now properly resets state after certain failed parse attempts
- Task: Nibbler eliminated
- Task: ISO8601d and ISO8601p eliminated
2017-03-05- Task: Eliminated separate handling for named dates, now relying on libshared
2017-03-06- libshared: Fixed Datetime bugs in eonm, sopww, som, and sow calculations
2017-03-07- libshared: Datetime now supports abbreviated forms {s,e}o{p,n,}{d,w,ww,m,q,y}
- libshared: Taskwarrior and Timewarrior now have identical Datetime support, so that 9am no longer means same day or next day
2017-03-09- #36: Fix issue “timew config can’t add new value” fixed
2017-03-14- libshared: Pig can now skip over partial phrases
- libshared: ::matchLength can determine common root string lengths
- libshared: Inherited Taskwarrior’s lex utility for parsing tests
2017-03-15- libshared: Duration now accepts 0 as valid again
- libshared: Configuration now properly captures original file name
- libshared: Durations like 1wk now perform negative lookahead to avoid cases where a duration is found embedded in a larger context
2017-03-19- libshared: Added negative lookahead for day and month names so that the ‘mon’ in ‘money’ does not mean ‘monday’ because of the subsequent characters
- libshared: Ambiguous Datetime forms (YYYYMMDD, YYYYMM, YYYY, HHMMSS and HHMM) can now be disabled
- #38: taskwarrior hook script doesn’t stop recording waiting task fixed
- #48: :lastweek on sunday fixed
2017-03-22- #72: Assign ids to intervals after flattening but before filtering fixed
2017-03-23- libshared: Table can now shut of word-wrapping for columns
- libshared: Fixed bug in Table that included color codes in length calculations
- Task: The CHILD, PARENT, INSTANCE, and TEMPLATE virtual tags are now backward/forward compatible
- Task: Finally fixed some TZ-dependent tests that fail when the clocks change
- Task: Fixed problems with the history, ghistory and summary reports rendering incorrectly
2017-03-30- #1916: grammar error -- There are 1 local changes fixed