Not clear how to use estimates about pitz HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi Alturog -- thanks for the question.

I'm curious. How do you estimate tasks? Do you use a number that can be any value between one and a billion, or do you choose from a list?

If you just want to assign arbitrary values without pre-defining choices ahead of time, you can do that, but use a different key name. This will work just fine:

$ pitz-edit abc123 altaurog-estimate

Then when your $EDITOR opens, you can store whatever text you want in there.

In my case, I want the estimate slot to point to a particular estimate object, that I defined in advance.

Imagine one project where people want to use estimates of "easy" or "hard". And another shop wants to use estimates like "1 day", "2 days", "3 days", "4 or more days".

Each shop would use

$ pitz-add-estimate

to make the estimates they want. Then, when they make a task, they choose the estimate from the pre-defined list.

pitz already has a few of these estimate schemes built-in already. Type this to see them:

$ pitz-add-estimate --from-builtin-estimates

And you'll see them. It is easy to add new ones just for your project. But if you come up with a useful estimate scheme, I'd be happy to add it to pitz itself, so other people can choose it.

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Any thoughts on this? I might close this issue.

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