Myrna van Lunteren wrote:
Hi,
I've been struggling with the semantics/use/purpose of the flags, in
particular 'Existing Application Impact' and 'Release Note Needed'...
I am wondering if we should have a short hint behind the flags.
Something like:
Patch Available: indicates that a patch is available for review and/or
commit. Gets picked up by daily automated mail.
Existing Application impact.An existing application can be impacted by
the solution to this issue.
Regression; the behavior described is worse than in previous
versions/builds.
Release Note Needed: indicates a releaseNote.html is/should be
attached. The releaseNote.html will be automatically included in the
RELEASE-NOTES.html at release time when this flag is on.
Myrna
Where would we put these hints? There's a nicely formatted explanation
of Derby JIRAs attached to
http://db.apache.org/derby/DerbyBugGuidelines.html However, it doesn't
mention a number of interesting fields, including the Urgency field and
the flags. That page, in turn, is also referenced by the wiki:
http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyDev The instructions for creating a
release note are hung off a wiki page dealing with the patch process:
http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyCommitProcess
It would be good to have one place where a new developer could go to
learn our JIRA-related conventions. Is there such a page already and I
just can't find it? Is the nicely formatted document the right
place--and it just needs to be refreshed with more information and new
screen shots?
Thanks,
-Rick
