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push comment along with worklog entry #11

Closed daroczig closed 9 years ago

daroczig commented 9 years ago

I really enjoy this plugin, and an IMHO useful feature came to my mind. Currently, master-bridge logs the time to the related ticket without any details, but the add_worklog from jira also has the option to push some comments for the saved worklog.

Not sure how much work would it require (it seems to me that it might be as easy as passing the hamster description as comment), but it would be nice to save the comments from Hamster into JIRA as well. E.g. I use hamster by specifying the JIRA ticket reference, then providing some details as comments, sometimes maybe also adding tags -- but that's not important at all.

Current behavior: when I type JIRA-1,doing foo an bar in hamster, then the logged time is saved to JIRA-1 ticket without any details. Suggested behavior: when I type JIRA-1,doing foo an bar in hamster, then the logged time is saved to JIRA-1 ticket with the doing foo and bar as the comment.

kraiz commented 9 years ago

Saw the "comment" parameter in the new jira-library (from #10), too. I also missed this possible feature when hacking together the initial bridge version. I'm with you, we need this!

I think i prefer the mapping of the task description to the jira comment over the separator approach because of 2 reasons: 1) Hamster has this autocomplete which helps you resuming a task. So you end up with many time slots spend for the same task. The statistics feature with the fancy charts works great this way and helps me to keep an overview of how much time i actually spent on a task/ticket. And the one-to-one-relation from hamster task to jira ticket whould be cut off when you change the title as you do different things on a task. 2) A more personal workflow problem for me is, that i start the task before actually reading the ticket description and really don't know what i actually do in this "task". I would add/fill the description field the hamster as i'm doing it or before stopping.

What do you think?

daroczig commented 9 years ago

Sounds great! It would be an extremely useful feature.

And I think I tried to describe the same thing, I mean when I write JIRA-1,doing foo and bar in the Gnome3 hamster extension, then JIRA-1 is saved as the task title and doing foo and bar as the description.

Looking forward to version 0.5.0 :) Let me know if I can help testing/debugging something.

kraiz commented 9 years ago

Hey, there's a new version waiting to beta test. The necessary change was indeed very ...jimp :)

Just install from Github:

$ pip install https://github.com/kraiz/hamster-bridge/zipball/master

btw...i really should update my box to be able to use the new hamster version with this , to description and # to tag parsing :)

daroczig commented 9 years ago

Wow, this works :+1: Thanks a lot!

kraiz commented 9 years ago

Tested this "in production" (@work) successfully, too :)

daroczig commented 9 years ago

I've been using the updated version of hasmter-bridge for two workdays, and it does the job without any issues. This small change added a lot of extra value for me :) Thanks again.