Keep track of how long it takes you to complete an issue.
Works locally on any git repo where you tag your commit messages with #NUMBER.
- doesn't care about your issue lifecycle, only your commits
- can call github cli to fetch issue titles
- no API tokens needed
- can exclude commit authors with regex
Fields are: date, issue, hours between first and last commit, one dot per 8h
2023-07-24 #2439 336.5 ················································>>
2023-07-24 #2480 0.9 ·
2023-07-25 #2481 23.7 ···
2023-07-25 #2462 191.6 ························
2023-07-27 #2485 19.4 ···
2023-07-31 #2491 99.7 ·············
2023-08-01 #2508 3.0 ·
My go-to invocation to look at last 14 days and exclude Dependabot:
$ cycletime --exclude=bot --days 14 -gh
2023-09-11 Display curation statements with a serif font #2608 4.3 ·
2023-09-12 Update images and text of home page value statements #2610 2.1 ·
2023-09-12 Change layout of home page value statements to altern... #2617 0.7 ·
2023-09-13 Spike extraction of constructReviewingGroups #2618 2.0 ·
2023-09-14 Make article cards look more like a journal #2609 48.5 ·······
2023-09-14 Remove the whitespace at the bottom of the home page ... #2620 0.0
2023-09-14 Improve contrast on home page curation teasers #2628 0.1 ·
2023-09-14 Improve alignment on the search results page #2629 0.0
2023-09-14 Convey the opportunity and solution space to readers ... #2619 3.7 ·
2023-09-14 Make triangles appear on laptops #2630 1.0 ·
2023-09-15 Investigate our db instances hitting end of life and ... #2631 3.9 ·
2023-09-19 Make rendering of annotation author dynamic #2639 25.5 ····
2023-09-19 Ensure that users can delete annotations by removing ... #2644 0.7 ·
2023-09-19 Stop using deprecated command helpers in the tests #2640 6.9 ·
2023-09-21 Optimise startup performance by separating decoding f... #2649 0.8 ·
2023-09-21 Improve accuracy of data on about page #2654 0.0
2023-09-22 Make annotations appear as comments rather than curat... #2650 23.1 ···
2023-09-22 Fix visual bug for annotation content spilling over #2655 0.0
2023-09-22 Make annotations look like speech bubbles #2658 1.2 ·
2023-09-22 Concierge annotations for the The Natural History of ... #2659 1.3 ·
2023-09-22 Fix bug where users can't remove articles from list i... #2660 0.8 ·
2023-09-22 Allow users on staging to annotate articles on a list #2663 0.2 ·
2023-09-22 Do not stop the dev server when backstop is run #2661 0.8 ·
$ cycletime -h
Usage: cycletime [flags] [PATH]
Hours between first and last commit tagged with an issue number
PATH defaults to the current working directory
-days int
How many days to look back, -1 being infinity (default -1)
-exclude string
Exclude commits with authors that match this regex (default "^$")
-gh
Use gh cli to obtain issue titles
Two options:
go install github.com/erkannt/cycletime@1.0.0- download prebuilt binaries from releases page