I wonder if people just missed this topic in the volume of recent discussions. And two days before the silly season is probably not a good time to try to revive it :-)
-David David Crossley wrote: > 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
