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Support for optional 3-letter day-of-week in the date

Current input example;

- 8/22 some/project/code ~some ~tags - short summary

Desired support for new format;

- 8/22 thu some/project/code ~some ~tags - short summary

Logic;

The day name is specified if;

  • Next word after date is 3 letters,

  • and it is one of mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun

  • TODO: Check if that date is actually matching with the day-of-week name Throw exception to reject invalid input if the day name is not matching

Extra caution/discussion points;

  • Problem; We also support a person name right after date. Person name can also be 3-letters long. If somebody makes a typo and types a day as thi instead of thu, we would accept that as a person name with the logic above.

    • Possible Solution; drop support for writing person names per report item. We don't have mixed reports in reality.
    • Possible Solution; Change how person name is written, eg @furkan instead of just furkan
    • In both solutions, we can also implement a typo protection. if the word after date is 3 letters, it MUST match one of the 7 day names.
      • Extra problem; what if the typo makes it 4 or 2 letters?

  • Another possible problem; Similar problem with above, what if it gets mixed with a project code?