Redmine

Jean-Philippe Lang wrote:

Here is a simple patch that adds this column.
I do not commit this patch in trunk since it doesn't take care of the 'view time entries' permission (anyone can add the column).

Dear Jean-Philippe Lang,

This patch doesn't apply for Redmine v0.9.2. "Spent Time" is not available in Fields list of Custom Queries either.

Any update?

Regards.
Amil.

it is rather frustrating having the "estimated" column and not having a "spent" column:(

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/321403/redmine-add-spent-time-field-to-issues-display

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I can't use this code for 1.1.2 redmine release.
Somebody did that for 1.1.2 release?

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Very useful feature.
Please, include it in next release.

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As mentioned the first time by Tony Marschall in #8559 note-4, there exists a plugin which provides this feature (along with some others) implemented as it should (correctly checking permissions): Redmine spent time column. It's written by Jan Schulz-Hofen of plan.io.

I've started working on some improvements to make it better suitable for this issue in my fork of it:
https://github.com/MischaTheEvil/redmine_spent_time_column

Mischa The Evil wrote:

As mentioned the first time by Tony Marschall in #8559 note-4, there exists a plugin which provides this feature (along with some others) implemented as it should (correctly checking permissions): Redmine spent time column. It's written by Jan Schulz-Hofen of plan.io.

I've started working on some improvements to make it better suitable for this issue in my fork of it:
https://github.com/MischaTheEvil/redmine_spent_time_column

The reason why I (and apparently many others) are asking for this to be included in the standard distribution of redmine is that it is simply quite a daunting task to get even a regular plugin installed properly, let alone a patch or experimental version of a plugin.
Yes instructions can be found on how to do this, but there are many versions which are often contradictory and it's very hard for people like me, who are not very savvy with Ruby on Rails to find out which set of instructions apply to your setup. Having to upgrade your installation from time to time makes this even more of a challenge.
Frankly, I'm quite glad I got redmine + a few plugins working properly now. I have tried in the past to install experimental stuff and on more than one occasion spent the better part of a day just to get everything in proper working order again (without the extra feature). That is something I can't easily justify to my employer.

Don't get me wrong, I am grateful to people who create great applications like redmine. I don't want to whine about not having this feature, and I'll be content to just wait until someone finally finds the time to add it to the main branch, or provides a finished plugin with installation instructions easy enough to follow for the likes of me.
But until that happens I'm not going to experiment with alpha or beta versions or patches or anything, I can't afford the risk of having the whole installation go down again.