I use two UDA to archive my needs. Unfortunately it is not possible to
set them the normal way when creating a task as it gets part of the
comment.

In the past I was able to adjust this by editing the task but this is
not working anymore and taskwarrior declines to accept the edit.

Edit still works, it was my own fault. But the main problem that it is
not possible to add them directly on command line still exists.

Regards
   Klaus Ethgen

* Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>, 2014-02-19, 16:27:

I'm afraid that I can't reproduce it here. I had no experience with
UDAs, so I followed the wiki examples[0], and they seem to work:

$ task config uda.estimate.type numeric
Are you sure you want to add 'uda.estimate.type' with a value of 'numeric'? (yes/no) y
Config file /home/jwilk/.taskrc modified.

$ task config uda.estimate.label Est
Are you sure you want to add 'uda.estimate.label' with a value of 'Est'? (yes/no) y
Config file /home/jwilk/.taskrc modified.

$ task add "Paint the door" project:Home estimate:4
Created task 1.
The project 'Home' has changed.  Project 'Home' is 0% complete (1 of 1 tasks remaining).

$ task 1 info

Name        Value
ID          1
Description Paint the door
Status      Pending
Project     Home
UUID        292ad349-9ad7-4a43-b3f4-867478fd22be
Entered     2014-02-19 21:57:12 (6 secs)
Urgency     1
Est         4



[0] http://taskwarrior.org/projects/taskwarrior/wiki/Feature_uda#User-Defined-Attributes-UDA

* Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>, 2014-02-20, 13:40:

I think so.

According upstream fixed in 2.4.0 -- see forwarded link