I agree with Mike. One of the big problems with filing feature requests in JIRA straight off is that you end up using JIRA to have a discussion on whether the feature is useful and how to design it. E-mail is a far, far better way to discuss that sort of thing.
Even something as simple as "add attribute 'foo'" - well, what do you name that attribute? In an e-mail thread, many people will see the question and can comment - in JIRA, you're lucky if one person takes the effort to put in commentary. -- Adam On 8/1/06, Mike Kienenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think there's any hard fast rule. Generally, unless you know beyond a doubt that it's a bug (and you generally have a patch for it at that point), I'd recommend bringing it up on the user or dev list as appropriate and see if anyone has a comment first. Because this is open souce, opening a JIRA issue typically is most helpful if you're planning on resolving it at some point -- there's no "paid help" who are going to drop what they're doing and fix something for you. It can also be helpful for documenting problems that may be beyond your ability to fix just so that others are aware of the issue. On 8/1/06, Joseph Rozier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw Matthias' comment on ADFFACES-104 regarding the protocol for > bringing up issues on the adffaces-dev list vs. opening a JIRA. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ADFFACES-104#action_12424717 > > Am I correct in assuming this is the preferred protocol: > > 1) if it is an obvious bug (e.g. a NullPointerException is being > thrown, etc.), open a JIRA > 2) if it is a new feature, e-mail -dev; after discussion, open a JIRA > > Is #1 a valid case, or should we ALWAYS e-mail adffaces-dev before > opening a JIRA? > > For #2, at what point is the decision made to open a JIRA? Do we need > go ahead from a commiter? > > Also, it seems there is a category #3: it seems like a bug, but maybe > it's not? In ADFFACES-104 for example, when I first read the issue I > assumed it was a bug that had slipped through Matthias' amazing > refactoring work. I could have seen myself filing a JIRA under case > #1 above thinking that this was an "obvious" bug. (I suppose the idea > here is--before assuming a change someone else did/didn't make is a > bug, e-mail adffaces-dev.) > > Once the protocol is clarified, I'd also like to add this to the > "involved" wiki... > > http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/ADF_Faces/involved > > Thanks, > > Joey >
