Show time spent in each project column + column history in GitHub Projects

[v-zahajsky]

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Hi, I'd love to see a feature in GitHub Projects that shows how long an issue has been in its current column, and ideally also the full history of column transitions.

From what I can see in the API (unless I'm missing something), it's only possible to get the current column of an issue — but not how long it has been there, nor any record of previous transitions.

This is one of the key missing features preventing us from fully switching over to GitHub Projects.

Is this feature planned? I believe it would be useful to a lot more teams than just ours.

Thanks!

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[slinna]

@v-zahajsky you can track timings for GitHub Projects using the Analytics & Reports add-on by Screenful. It can report lead and cycle times for each issue, the averages, and how long each issue stays on each workflow step. It is all automatically calculated so it takes just a few minutes to get this data for any of your GitHub Projects.

You can learn more from this post: https://screenful.com/blog/measuring-lead-and-cycle-times-of-github-issues

Here's the guide for getting started with the free trial.