[TaskJuggler][Poll] Support for the new effort durations?

[TaskJuggler][Poll] Support for the new effort durations?

[Christian Egli]

The Effort property previously had no unit attached. With release 7.5 of
orgmode you can now attach units to it such as 4h, 2d or 2m. The
taskjuggler exporter however doesn't support this feature yet. It
currently assumes that if is simply a number that we are talking about
days. If the format is something like 5:30 it assumes that the effort is
in hours:minutes. It has no support for other formats (weeks, months
which taskjuggler itself would support).

Now I suppose the exporter should honor the new effort durations that
were introduced in 7.5. This is not that hard to change. However this
would mean that existing orgmode files will be exported differently,
i.e. the change is not backwards compatible.

At the moment I do not know how to deal with this. Should I just move to
the new effort durations and ask the user to upgrade their orgmode files
or more specifically to upgrade their effort properties to the new
effort durations format?

Thoughts?

Thanks
Christian

-- 
Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland

[Taskjuggler] Backwards incompatible change [was: Support for the new effort durations?]

[Christian Egli]

Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch> writes:

> The Effort property previously had no unit attached. With release 7.5 of
> orgmode you can now attach units to it such as 4h, 2d or 2m. The
> taskjuggler exporter however doesn't support this feature yet. It
> currently assumes that if is simply a number that we are talking about
> days. If the format is something like 5:30 it assumes that the effort is
> in hours:minutes. It has no support for other formats (weeks, months
> which taskjuggler itself would support).
>
> Now I suppose the exporter should honor the new effort durations that
> were introduced in 7.5. This is not that hard to change. However this
> would mean that existing orgmode files will be exported differently,
> i.e. the change is not backwards compatible.
>
> At the moment I do not know how to deal with this. Should I just move to
> the new effort durations and ask the user to upgrade their orgmode files
> or more specifically to upgrade their effort properties to the new
> effort durations format?

I pushed a change now which supports the new effort durations. However
this change is NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE. Previously the exporter assumed
that effort estimates such as '2' meant 2 days. It now assumes that you
are talking about 2 minutes. In order to get the same result when
exporting change plain effort estimates such as '2' to '2d'. M-x
query-replace-regexp should get you there.

The info file is updated. I need to fix the tutorial on worg.

Thanks
Christian
-- 
Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland