find a way to give timeslices

[rbouqueau]

for example, rbouqueau between 2009/05/25 and 2009/05/24 (inclusive) is handled differently

it is important for copyright purposes when contributors work for different employers (or for themselves)

how could we do that?

[RodolpheFouquet]

Would you like to have, for example, 2 lines?

I could spend time to add a json config file to allow you to specify several timespans, and in the result you would have:

rbouqueau 2009-05-24 to 2009-05-25 | stats blablabla
rbouqueau (otherwise)              | stats blablabla

[rbouqueau]

would be great, thanks :)

[RodolpheFouquet]

{
  "periods": [
    { "user": "rbouqueau",
      "start": "2009-05-24",
      "end": "2009-05-25",
      "alias": "working at telecom"
    }
  ]
}

Would give:

rbouqueau (working at telecom)| stats blablabla
rbouqueau (otherwise)         | stats blablabla

Seems good for you?

And adding multiple periods could be

{
  "periods": [
    { "user": "rbouqueau",
      "start": "2009-05-24",
      "end": "2009-05-25",
      "alias": "working at telecom"
    },
   { "user": "rbouqueau",
      "start": "2009-05-26",
      "end": "2009-05-30",
      "alias": "working with unicorn superpowers, lasers and stuff"
    }
  ]
}

[rbouqueau]

Good. We need to allow end value in the future so that the same script can be used everytime e.g.

{
  "periods": [
    { "user": "rbouqueau",
      "start": "2000-01-01",
      "end": "2009-05-24",
      "alias": "working at telecom"
    },
   { "user": "rbouqueau",
      "start": "2009-05-26",
      "end": "2009-05-30",
      "alias": "working with unicorn superpowers, lasers and stuff"
    }
   { "user": "rbouqueau",
      "start": "2009-06-01",
      "end": "2079-05-30",
      "alias": "radio gaga"
    }
  ]
}

[RodolpheFouquet]

Why would you do that? Evey commit that wouldn't be in the specified timespan would be put in an "otherwise" section.

[RodolpheFouquet]

Though I might add support for timespans without start or end point.

Without start, it would be "everything before the end date", and without end point it would be "everything after the start date".

[rbouqueau]

Though I might add support for timespans without start or end point.

That was my point. But I also imagined that people could specify something wrong anyway (i.e. overlaps).

Any of these is fine for me :)