[Trac] Trac`ing the time spent on tickets.

[Felix Collins]

Hi All,
We are currently discussing extending Trac to allow us to do basic time 
tracking of tickets.  The idea is to add some fields to the Tickets table:

Initial Estimated Duration (hours) - Set when the ticket is created

Current Estimated Duration (hours) - Can be updated at any time while 
the ticket is open.

Current Cumulative Time (hours) - Can be added to at any time by anybody 
while the ticket is open.


This would obviously need some small additions to the ticket UI.


All this would allow us to do some cool stuff like a report showing % 
completion of a milestone based on time estimates and time spent.

It is important to keep an initial estimate because this allows 
retrospective assessment of the initial estimate accuracy.

Has anyone looked at doing anything like this?  I'm a Python Newbie and 
not really familiar with the insides of trac.

Would anybody care to hazard a guess as to how hard this would be to 
implement?

Would this feature be likely to make it into the trunk?  Could this be a 
  good first project using the modules facility?


Cheers,
Felix