Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 137981
The time estimate tracking is totally useless
Last modified: 2013-06-23 23:02:41 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: I have attempted to use the time estimate and hours worked in the bugzilla entries, but it unusable in it current state. Estimates are just that estimates. The bugzilla tracking makes the assumption that estimate==actual time required. There is no leeway to revise the estimate based on new information or say that that 8 hours were required to fix something that was estimated to take 4 (bugzilla does not like negative time). It really should be a history, show the revision of the estimates and the actual amount of time take required regardless of the estimate. This would allow get a better undertanding of the amount of work required to fix particular problems. As it stands right now I do bother to fill the estimated and actual timed because I always get some kind of error when I do. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make bugzilla entry and estimate the time required 2. open bug and claim it is completed with more time than original estimate. 3. Actual Results: bugzilla complains about negative time. Expected Results: Be able to track estimated and actual time spent on bug. Additional info:
So you are saying that the estimated time field cannot be changed from 4 to 8 for example later once a better idea of time needed is decided? You should be able to and it will go in the bug activity like any other change so you can look back and see that it did in fact need more time than originally though. If this is broken or incomplete I will file a bug upstream since this is part of the main Bugzilla code base and has not been altered by myself.
I made a dummy bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138084 To show the problem. I initial set the estimate to 0.5 hours. Then attempted to put doen the "Hours Worked" as 1 hour. I got a message. The Hours Left field requires a positive number. How many estimate do you know that error on the high side? What I would like to see is where there can be multiple lines of estimates, a history of the estimates. Also allow the hours work to be an accurate reflection of the time spent regardless of what it does to the "Hours left" Est. Current Est. Hours Worked Hours Left %Complete Gain 0.5 0.5 0.0 + 1 0 0.0 -0.5 Basically have a new line each time a time field is change. Also have dates on when the times related things are changes. In general give better tracking on how much work required to fix bugs.
Red Hat Bugzilla is now using version 3.2 of the Bugzilla codebase and therefore this bug will need to be re-verified against the new release. With the updated code this bug may no longer be relevant or may have been fixed in the new code. Updating bug version to 3.2.
Is this RFE still valid?
Yes, this appears to still be valid.
The behavior seems to be improved. Is there some way to get a get history of estimate data? If there is someway to get the history of the estimate/work data, then this can be closed.
Did you try the history tab? Upper right on the "Modified" label
Looks like the information can be obtained from the history.