[Sugar-devel] Time spent on activity (was Best time format for logging?)

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> 2014-03-27 15:23 GMT-03:00 Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>:
> > Maybe have sense save the spent time as a list too,
> > like we do with launch times.
> > Looks like a non invasive change, and a good source of information.
>
> Good point, is the other option I was handling.  Is a trivial patch too:
>
> https://github.com/manuq/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/8/files
>
> I think this one is definetely better.
>
> I was in doubt for two reasons: 1. because unlike launch_time, this
> spent-times metadata will not be saved if the activity does not end
> properly: could be a crash, a programming error, end of battery, etc.
> So the item N of spent-times will not necessarily correspont to item N
> of launch-times.
>
>
While is true you don't have how much time was spent in every session,
the sequence is good data anyway.


> And secondly, because the simpler option satisfies the placeholder
> that is currently in Harvest
>
> https://github.com/tchx84/harvest-server/blob/master/sql/001-harvest.sql#L24
>
> The second one will require a new table in Harvest.  But that's an
> easy change too.
>

Ok, would be good have tch involved then.


>
> Side note: I see we have a horrible mix of styles in metadata, some
> names use underscore (title_set_by_user, activity_id) and some use
> minus character (share-scope, icon-color, launch-times).  Does anyone
> know the preferred style?
>
>
No idea about that

Gonzalo
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