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I'm all in favour of this too.

This is the one reason that I nearly chose FogBugz over Redmine (we may still switch - nothing is ever set in concrete!), and it's a really important one at that.

I vote for this as well.

I am using Redmine until I can cost-justify Fogbugz. I also prefer the method Fogbugz uses of the developer inputting the number of hours remaining instead of percent completion.

+1 - I also request theses features!

I think there is a lot of people who would like this feature but nobody from redmine answered or commented the issue. May be we can build it as a plugin but I think the best way is to add it to the main structure. Let me know what you think.

+1 for this feature from me as well. Is anyone currently working on this? Just wondering if this is actually under development in the mainline or as a plugin, or if it's stalled. I might be willing to contribute some time to trying to implement this if it's not currently going anywhere.

Maybe the Schedules plugin fills your request partially?

I banged out an attempt at this feature and submitted a pull request from edavis10 on github. We'll see if it makes it in, as it's my first attempt at contributing to Redmine. I'll post an update here if the functionality does make it in, and if it doesn't maybe I can figure out how to make a plugin that would add the functionality that way.

David Davis:

Could you post a link and/or patch here? I'm the only one that gets pull requests and I don't want to roadblock this issue if I'm busy.

Can this issue be implemented into one of next releases?
I think it's very important, let it be optional, but it'll be a big plus to Redmine.

Sorry for my English :)

Is this implemented or not. We are looking for it desperately .

+1

+1

Especially we like the estimation accourancy profile thing. This will create a retroperspective on every version cycle and leaning curve for better estimations and make them more expert. In fact it should be possible to have them anonymous per feature/version or per personalized.
Great idea!

+1

I also totally require this feature as well. But I would like an additional or different feature.

It would work the following:
For a Milestone (or Version in Redmine) I define Issues. I would specify the time estimate, an assignee and a unique priority number (e.g. added as a custom field).
Now, Redmine should be able to compute the start and end dates for each issue in the version, based on priorities (higher priority number first), issue depencies (relations, predecessors first) and assignees (issues can be done in parallel by different people).

I would also be willing contribute, since I'm a developer myself. (Unfortunatly I'm not into Ruby, but c++. Maybe I could help to write the algorithm, when having some of your expert-ruby-assistance. :) )

I really require this! :) Or was it already added meanwhiles? Answers and comments are highle appreciated!!

+1

This sounds amazing! Would love to see it implemented.

+1

+1

Definitely need this!! Currently we have to do our planning on MS Project, then add all the same tasks to Redmine using the dates info MS Project gave us.

Each time we need to move the start date of a task (and believe me, that happens a LOT, mainly when we work on our in-house projects on our free times) we have to manually change all the dates. Think of that when a project has 100+ tasks, it takes at least 2hs to update all the tasks...

at least to be able to choose between due date or duration

All my +1s to this. Frankly, this is huge, and I'm a bit irritated that I've spent the last couple of days trying to get Redmine to do this. Using duration as an alternative to explicit due dates is a basic feature of every project management tool I've ever used. It didn't even occur to me that you simply wouldn't be able to do it in Redmine. Lacking this basically prevents it from being usable by me, so I really hope this gets some attention soon. :(

Here's my solution. It assumes 8 hour workdays and that Saturdays and Sundays are skipped as non-work days. It should be easy to adapt if your work schedule deviates from this.

Add the 'Custom Workflow' plug-in:
http://www.redmine.org/plugins/custom-workflows

The Custom Workflow plug-in is extremely powerful and you can use it in many ways to customize Redmine to a pretty high level. It basically executes custom code before and after saving an issue. Create a new custom workflow as follows.

Description:
When Start Date or Estimated Hours changes, updates the issue Due Date. Saturdays and Sundays are skipped and and its assumed that there are 8 Estimated Hours per work day.

Code block (left side):

if leaf? && self.start_date && self.estimated_hours
  if start_date_changed? || estimated_hours_changed?
    self.due_date = self.start_date + (self.estimated_hours+7)/8
    non_work_days = 0
    (self.start_date..self.due_date).each do |date|
      if date.wday == 0 || date.wday == 6
        non_work_days += 1
      end
    end
    self.due_date += non_work_days + 2*(non_work_days/7)
  end
end

Brian Lindahl wrote:

Here's my solution. It assumes 8 hour workdays and that Saturdays and Sundays are skipped as non-work days. It should be easy to adapt if your work schedule deviates from this.

Add the 'Custom Workflow' plug-in:
....

FANTASTIC!!!

Brian Lindahl wrote:

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Thanks for Brian.
It's a big help.
But in some situations the due day will fall into weekends by your code.

I made a revision to this.
And in my redmine, the due date is the last day for the job, not the last+1
(Didn't use ruby before. If something is wrong, plz correct me.)

if leaf? && self.start_date && self.estimated_hours
  if start_date_changed? || estimated_hours_changed?
    work_days =  ((self.estimated_hours + 7.9)/8).to_i

    if work_days <= 1
        self.due_date = self.start_date
    else # >= 2
        work_days -= 1 # check from the next day.

        cur_date = self.start_date + 1  # move to next day        
        while work_days > 0 do 
            if cur_date.wday == 0 || cur_date.wday == 6 # if next day is weekend
                cur_date += 1
            else
                work_days -= 1
                self.due_date = cur_date
                if work_days > 0
                    cur_date += 1  # move to next day
                end
            end
        end
    end        
  end
end

There is also a plugin that will assign the due date based on versions and durations:
https://github.com/railsformers/redmine_issue_due_date