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Resource Planning and Value Accounting for Value Networks
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Graphs don't know hours vs minutes #423

Open fosterlynn opened 9 years ago

fosterlynn commented 9 years ago

Reported by Jim. Tibi logged some work tasks in minutes. When the graph is viewed here - http://valnet.webfactional.com/accounting/project-roles/pv-characterization/ - it is taken as hours. The commitment is in hours.

bhaugen commented 9 years ago

I would prefer not to fix this now, but to remove minutes from the units and hand-convert the few existing time logs from minutes to decimal hours.

As I said in my email, what needs to happen here in general is unit of measure conversions. That is a deep subject, and a large project. I've done it twice before, in a general way that would handle any conversions between two compatible units, in two different systems, and it took several months both times.

We started and will continue to have a conversation about the best way to do unit conversions in a general way in the OVN vocabulary project, https://github.com/openvocab/ovn

I'd prefer to design unit conversions in that conversation so we come up with something that can be used by networks of networks, not just Sensorica. But that conversation moves slowly.

If another network using NRP needs unit conversions, I would try to speed up that conversation.

If only Sensorica desperately needs only conversions from minutes to decimal hours right now, I would fork this project and put it into a new sensorica github account and hard-code it.

That will also take some time and have some risks, so it's a priority question, and I doubt that it is really a high priority.