[Mantisbt-dev] Time Tracker Code (#5231).

[David N. <dav...@bi...>]

Dev,

I have altered a copy of Mantis 0.19.2 in order to add a Time Tracker.
Attached are the source code changes.

I would like to re-open bug 5231 and add the source code files.
(http://bugs.mantisbt.org/view.php?id=5231)

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| Basics of how it works:

It adds a time_taken field to each bugnote entry.
All places where you update the bugnote entry you can update the
time_taken. Searches have been added to various pages (specifically
View and (new) Billing) which collate and sum the time_taken's
to produce a username/(sum time_taken)/bug table.

I would like to try and get this facility into the next release. I don't
minding adding it in myself, but I will need developer privs.
My username is 'davidnewcomb'.
I have followed the code formatting standard specified.


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|Noteable pages that have changed:

1) 'View bug' page: 'Add Note' section
Addition of new time taken field as part of the Add Note.

2) 'View bug' page: 'Notes' section
All bugnotes containing a time_taken display the time taken in square
brackets.

3) 'View bug' page: New 'Bugnote Statistics' section
Allows you to search for bugnotes within a time period and produces a
table of users with sums of the times taken (for this bug).

4) New 'Billing' page:
Finds all bugnotes, within a specified project or ALL_PROJECTS within a
date range and produces a summary of user's time spent on particular bugs.
A cost per hour can be added to the form to produce a billing break-down.

5) Sorry only lang/string_english.txt has been altered.


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| Installation instructions:

1)
Unzip/Untar a clean copy of mantis-0.19.2
2)
Change to the mantis-0.19.2 directory
3)
Unzip/Untar mantis-0.19.2-time_taken.tgz
4)
The file z_time_taken.sql contains the one-liner sql update to
make all this work.


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Any chance of getting this into the next release?


Regards,
David
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Managing Director
BigSoft Limited
Reading, UK
http://www.bigsoft.co.uk/