Redmine

Interesting feature.

I'm wondering if it's better to add this info as tooltip in order to keep the issue view as clean as possible and also to make the info available everywhere where due date is rendered (issues list, related issues).

Adding as a tooltip in issues list and related issues is a nice improvement.

But I think the information should be shown by default for issue detail page. Since the information is really useful to manage tasks, I want to know it at a glance, without any additional action. Hovering the mouse cursor on the date takes about one second. It is stressful for me.

I think tooltip is not so accessible. In fact, I know many people want to see the issue's creation time and updated time without hovering on the text "X days ago".

+1

I agree to show the remaining days on the ticket details screen,
but I am concerned about the following points.

First of all, I think that this function is to make it easy to be aware of the number of days until the ticket due date.

I want to show only when the date is within a few days.
If it has been displayed for a month, it may be overlooked.

Since the request for the display form is different for each site and project,
It is good to be able to change the setting for each server / project.

As a simple solution, I propose to make it possible to set a reference number of days to start displaying the remaining number of days.

Yuuki NARA wrote:

I want to show only when the date is within a few days.
If it has been displayed for a month, it may be overlooked.

I noticed that you think this feature as a warning that the due date is coming soon. But this is just information that supplements the date.

Since the request for the display form is different for each site and project,
It is good to be able to change the setting for each server / project.

I understand it is useful when diverting the feature as a warning. But I would like to go with the first patch (show_due_in_x_days.patch) to keep thing simple for now.

How about discussing adding the setting after this patch has been merged? Maybe the discussion takes a long time. I want to give priority to improving Redmine as soon as we can.

Go MAEDA wrote:

How about discussing adding the setting after this patch has been merged?
Maybe the discussion takes a long time.
I want to give priority to improving Redmine as soon as we can.

I agree.
It is not an operation that may confuse the user, so it is better to use it for many people and judge from the feedback.
It is important to move that cycle quickly.

Yuuki NARA wrote:

It is not an operation that may confuse the user

Yes, it is confusing in Hungarian, where the shortsighted distance_of_time_in_words doesn't work (e.g. 2 nap múlva vs 2 napon belül vs 2 napja).