Toggl-button: Track time spent in GitLab

[sergey-alekseev]

GitLab has a nice feature called Time Tracking. You can record the time spent working on an issue or a merge request.

Expected behavior

When I click the _Start timer_ button and then the _Stop timer_ button the time period should be added as _time spent_ to a corresponding issue or a merge request.

Actual behavior

When I click the _Start timer_ button and then the _Stop timer_ button the time period isn't added as _time spent_ to a corresponding issue or a merge request.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Configure the Gitlab Time Tracking Integration
2. Click the _Start timer_ button
3. Click the _Stop timer_ button

Additional details

Environment details

• Operating system: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
• Extension version: 1.5.0

Links

1. Time Tracking - GitLab Documentation
2. Toggl - Gitlab Time Tracking Integration

[emilv]

No, this is not the expected behavior. They are two different functions. We do not want these messages clogging up our Gitlab issues:

If you want to integrate the two systems I suggest you use the Toggl and Gitlab APIs to push tracking info to Gitlab.

[oppianmatt]

Would love for toggl to submit the time spent on the issue to the issue itself.

[egel]

@emilv I would not completely agree with you, although you're completely right about:

They are two different functions.

Here is more about what the commenting on Gitlab really is/should be (IMHO it's really great that everything is logged - the flow is transparent).

I think @emilv, you want to filter some types of comments (they might blur a bit the view if you're working with issues/MR - agree). However, maybe developing the feature to filter the comments is better the way instead of suppressing nice new features? 😉

[tcrammond]

Thanks for all the input. I'll just add that if we were to implement a feature like this, it would probably be an opt-in setting.