stckme / gitleaves

Git Based Leaves management system

gitleaves

Git Based Leaves management system

Project status: Still in early stage but we use it in production

Features

• Pull requests based leaves management. Most natural for software development team
• Github friendly workflow
• Generates github wiki friendly markdown reports. Markdown can be used by different static site generators too

Specifications

File names

• leaves.<YYYY>.csv
• extras.<YYYY>.csv

Format

Leaves

MMDD [- MMDD], Name, Reason / Details [Optional]

Extra days

MMDD [- MMDD], Name, Reason / Details [Optional]

Example

1115 - 1126, Tony Stark, Hawaii
1129 - 1210, Peter Parker,
1129 - 1202, Bruce Wayne,
1220 - 1224, Loki Laufeyson, Smell the flowers

Usage

Organization setup

• Create a git repo for your organization's leaves data

mkdir leavesdata
cd leavesdata
git init
mkdir data
fname=data/leaves.`date +%Y`.csv
# example data 
echo `1129 - 1202, Bruce Wayne,` >> $fname
echo `1220 - 1224, Loki Laufeyson, Smell the flowers` >> $fname
git commit -a
git push origin main

• Install gitleaves

pip install gitleaves

• Generate reports

gitleaves genreports
ls reports/

• Automate report generation Document github actions based report generation

Process

• Apply for leave(s) by adding records to leaves.YYYY.csv
• Raise a PR
• Leave is approved if the PR is merged

Dev Guidelines

• Human Readable data files (as much possible)

TODO

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter_ and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

• Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
• audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage`: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage