DevLog Update

I thought I’d create a followup post on how the DevLog project is working out. I deployed and started using it almost three weeks ago. I have to say, I really love it!

It not only gives me an overview of the hours I’m spending on my open-source projects. It also:

• It helps me pick up where I left off.
• I manage a life/work balance better.
• I can see where my time is going and what, if anything, is being produced.

One lesson learned. Some project work doesn’t result in a GitHub commit. For example:

• Marketing posts
• Verification
• Creating a spec

I created an Ops repository to track such work. I used that bucket to track my rollout of FreeIPA in my lab environment. It was a chunk of work and I wanted to see it in my DevLog hours.

I also did a minor tweak to the dl status output, so it shows paused tasks:

$ dl status
Repository (blog): Task #236 running for 00:17 (HH:MM)
Paused tasks:
  Repository (bmforge): Task #227 paused
$ 

All in all, I’m very happy with DevLog. If you’re interested in tracking your GitHub project time, and more, check it out! And if you do like it, or find it interesting, please give the GitHub DevLog Repo a star.