Re: [Planner] Work time calculation

[Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 01:34 -0800, pikku_nikke eml cc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the quick answer about what "unlink" does!
> 
> I have now been doing a project plan where I have several resources
> working for some project. Tasks are partly done concurrently and partly
> have dependencies between them. Additionally the project is using a
> modified calender with local holidays and a shorter working day (6h). I
> was happy with this until I was asked what is the total amount of "man
> work days"*. If I figured right the Work column should give this
> information, right?
> 
> I noticed that the "Work" column in the task list does not seem to count
> correctly the tasks' work durations. For example for one specific task I
> have, I get the sum of 36d7h, where this should be 37d1h using the
> project's calendar.
> 
> Additionally I found that this task has a duration of 36d7h in Planner
> and when I export the plan to html, the Gantt chart shows for the same
> task a work duration of 34d5h!
> 
> Have I misunderstood what the Work column represents? Are these know
> defects or should they be reported somewhere?

Yes, this is a known bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165948

I've patched the calculation of work in the summary tasks in CVS, so
that's accurate now, but Planner still assumes 8 hour days in some
calculations, and that still needs to be addressed.

If anyone would like to take a stab at fixing this, it would be a great
contribution.

-- 
Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>