At Apache Forrest we have discovered some problems with the ASF Jira. Cocoon is going to hit these same issues.
So i wonder if we can address it together. There are evidently some people on cocoon-dev who have used Jira extensively. Perhaps we need customised screens. Jira has a field called "Priority" which has the values Blocker, Critical, Major, Minor, Trivial. ASF Bugzilla has a different concept. It has a field called "Severity" with those same values. It has another called "Priority" which has values like p1, p2, p3, etc. The Buzilla "Severity" means the impact of the issue (e.g. Blocker means that it prevents development). The "Priority" means the importance and order in which it should be fixed. [1] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity In my opinion Jira has these two concepts mixed up together. Some other project (Xalan?) has already added a custom field called "fix-priority". Should we add that field to our issue screens and reports? This becomes confusing at the front page of a project e.g. http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR where "By Priority" is listed in the bottom-right. They are not actually our priority for fixing the issues, but a list of the perceived severity. There is an additional problem. Forrest has separate "Plugins" and Cocoon has separate "Blocks". A Blocker in a Plugin is not necessarily a Blocker for the project as a whole. This makes it difficult for the developers to plan what to work on next and which issues need to be fixed for the upcoming release. It also gives an unrealistic view of the state of the project. So do people here agree with those problems? Do you see a workaround? Perhaps rename "Priority" to "Severity" and also list "fix-priority" on the front page and on the issue screens. Ross recently asked at ASF Infrastructure about the wider issue of separate "sub-projects". See the answer and other discussion about this topic at forrest-dev [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113213094300001 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=113334665915625 -David
