Re: [BUG] Error in data input and output format for org-columns--summary-estimate

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

andrea@fedeli.eu writes:

>> About possibile abuses, org documentation, to date, clearly tells
>> org estimate utilizes times.
>
>> May you please elaborate?

>     AF: Sure! Clause 8.5 of current
>    (2023.Jul.14) org documentation,
>    https://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-Estimates.html, refers to effort
>    estimates giving examples that are all appearing to fall in time
>    domain.

I see what you mean.
However, est+ column summary does not have to be applied to EFFORT
columns.

One can, for example, use %SCORE{est+} column specification to summarize
values stored in SCORE property. Org has no right to demand SCORE to be
in time units and only time units.

>    > Similarly, I'd not spend too much code to check the format; i
>    > understand the intent to preserve backward compatibility, bit if
>    > that format adaptation mistake slipped forward to these days I
>    > doubt that nice feature was used much so far...
>
>    Yes, but it is easy to have a fallback, so why not.

>    Because this way you persist in allowing a mistaken usage of that
>    function. A number is a number but a duration is NOT just a number,
>    and having something like (just for example) 10kg-0.5ton be taken
>    as 10-0.5 is in my opinion NOT helpful to any user.

We may provide a linter (for M-x org-lint) that will ensure EFFORT
estimates to be in understandable format.

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