On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Rick Hillegas wrote:
I'm afraid I'm more blind. Where on what screen is the "patch available" box?
When you create or edit an issue, it's just below the description and just above where you comment. It's small and unassuming - it doesn't blink and it's not bright magenta - so it's easy to miss.
When searching for issues, you pick Find Issues, and then you need to select Derby as the project to search. That makes the custom 'patch available' field appear in the bottom left section of the screen, in the section labeled Custom Fields.
Now that I've got the hang of the custom fields in JIRA, I could add all sorts of things - drop-down boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes. But, I don't want to overload JIRA with a bunch of fields whose state is poorly maintained, either. A query for open issues with a patch available should satisfy the answer to the question: what needs review? That leaves the question: what needs commit? But, if there's a checkbox for 'Patch needs commit,' but it will still be up to the committer to review the review comments (be they in JIRA or on the list) and determine whether or not there is consensus to apply a patch, and the committer will still need to review the patch themselves anyway, so I guess I'm just not sure what value another checkbox would add.
andrew
