Mike, I have created a wiki page to document the various classifications.
This can be a starting point. We can provide additional examples or clarifications for each classification as needed. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLUME/Classification+of+JIRA+Issues On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Israel, > It does seem somewhat arbitrary how issues are classified sometimes. :) At > release time in the past I have gone and reclassified stuff that I thought > was in the wrong place. > > Thanks for bringing up the point. Do you have any specific suggestions? > Personally I had forgotten there was a Documentation type and agree it's > good practice to mark doc JIRAs as such. > > Regards, > Mike > > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Israel Ekpo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I have ran into JIRA issues like > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1621 where very important > > features within Flume are not documented properly or not documented at > all > > and we need to address the problem. > > > > In this particular instance, I think the issue should have been > classified > > as Improvement or Documentation rather than as a Bug. > > > > Should these be classified as Bugs, Improvements or Documentation. > > > > So my question now is: > > > > In general, when do we classify the JIRA issues as: > > > > - Improvement > > - Documentation > > - Bug > > - Wish > > - Task > > - New Feature > > > > Are there any guidelines that could help in classifying the issues > > properly? > > >
