Feature request: set time tracking value for other user

[camdarley]

Description

Sometimes, as a project manager, I have to manually set the amount of time my developers spent on a feature.
Currently, if I add time tracking to an issue, the tracked time is set on my own user.
Would be great to be able to add a time amount for another user.
Could be either through the API: add optional user_id in the POST request when adding times to issues, or in the UI, having a user field in the time tracking popup, or both
Only repo administrator and owner could be able to set another user.
Regards.

[lunny]

I think that issue track time should be counted as assignees' not the current user if assignees has been set.

[camdarley]

I agree, but as there can be multiple assignees on an issue we would still need an additional field to choose which assignee we need to track time of.

[6543]

@camdarley I'll work on the times API endpoints at #9200 if you have suggestions .., let me know :)

[camdarley]

Hi @6543, sorry for my late response.
I would suggest to add a user optional parameter in the body of request to /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{id}/times.
If omitted, default value is set to current user.
Also, only users with admin rights on the current repository should be allowed to use the user parameter.

[camdarley]

Or even simpler: add a POST option to /repos​/{owner}​/{repo}​/times​/{user}

[6543]

@camdarley it is already in #9200 (as optional parameter in the body of reqest)
dont like to add to mouch api endpoints for a single option

more info: here

[zeripath]

Or just use Sudo?

[6543]

sudo can only use the admin

but the optinal parameter allow allow also repoOwners to set ... thoungt this is a good way to go ...

-> but yes sudo API prevent us from adding mouch code usw ...