Time Tracking
Introduced in GitLab 8.14.
Time Tracking allows you to track estimates and time spent on issues and merge requests within GitLab.
Overview
Time Tracking lets you:
- record the time spent working on an issue or a merge request,
- add an estimate of the amount of time needed to complete an issue or a merge request.
You don't have to indicate an estimate to enter the time spent, and vice versa.
Data about time tracking is shown on the issue/merge request sidebar, as shown below.
How to enter data
Time Tracking uses two quick actions that GitLab introduced with this new
feature: /spend
and /estimate
.
Quick actions can be used in the body of an issue or a merge request, but also in a comment in both an issue or a merge request.
Below is an example of how you can use those new quick actions inside a comment.
Adding time entries (time spent or estimates) is limited to project members.
Estimates
To enter an estimate, write /estimate
, followed by the time. For example, if
you need to enter an estimate of 3 days, 5 hours and 10 minutes, you would write
/estimate 3d 5h 10m
.
Every time you enter a new time estimate, any previous time estimates will be overridden by this new value. There should only be one valid estimate in an issue or a merge request.
To remove an estimation entirely, use /remove_estimation
.
Time spent
To enter a time spent, use /spend 3d 5h 10m
.
Every new time spent entry will be added to the current total time spent for the issue or the merge request.
You can remove time by entering a negative amount: /spend -3d
will remove 3
days from the total time spent. You can't go below 0 minutes of time spent,
so GitLab will automatically reset the time spent if you remove a larger amount
of time compared to the time that was entered already.
To remove all the time spent at once, use /remove_time_spent
.
Configuration
The following time units are available:
- weeks (w)
- days (d)
- hours (h)
- minutes (m)
Default conversion rates are 1w = 5d and 1d = 8h.