[krig]

Personally, I disagree. Sure, first you get time estimation. Then you get task-based time tracking, then you get average resolution time per committer, then you get weekly spreadsheet generation and analysis meetings on thursday afternoons and there you go, now you're getting memos about adding coversheets to your TPS reports.

I hope they are very careful about adding features and would rather see them focus on trimming less useful features.

[rchowe]

Honestly I think that, like version control, time estimation can be a very useful feature for people working on a project alone if they use something like Joel Spolsky's evidence-based scheduling[1]. It would be nice if GitHub provided a way to keep track of that. I agree with you that there's a point where there get to be too many features, but if they're building a project for teams to work on things time estimation seems too useful to pass up.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html

[ricardobeat]

There are a number of time-tracking tools that interface with GitHub via it's API.