I agree. It would be a nightmare to go back and update all the closed issues.
In the time being, I am going through some of the open issues and re-classifying them wherever appropriate. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > I would suggest though, that we adopt this standard primarily for existing > open issues and new issues. > > Regards, > Mike > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Great! +1 from me :) > > > > Regards, > > Mike > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Israel Ekpo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 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? > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > > >
