I have a couple programmers working in one project, and I would like to measure how much effort the put into it. Please let me know if applicable to add a spent-time field to the ticket. If so, I would create the reports and contribute to the project.
Each time someone updates a ticket, a time_spent field (in the Change Properties section)would capture the hours spent so far, the total amount of time spent for a specific ticket would be the sum of all the ticket's time spent hours.
With this, I would like to create a report that tells me how much time we spend in a mile stone, effort-hours spent by team member, total times spent in a single ticket.
Check out redmine time tracking. It allows you log time, enter progress %, very cool.
How exactly would the time spent field work? how would it be calculated?