Thank you all for your feedback. As part of my on-boarding process in the project, I wanted to make sure that I understood thoroughly how things work relating to JIRA issues (status, fix versions, classifications, priority etc).
I am still learning, so I will have more questions in the immediate future. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Alexander Alten-Lorenz <[email protected]>wrote: > +1 > > On Apr 4, 2013, at 5:58 AM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think that we're using RESOLVED in place of CLOSED as Apache JIRA is > configured in a way that it actually won't allow to reopen or edit any JIRA > in CLOSED state to anyone other than reporter itself. We had issues in the > past when we needed to change the "fixVersion" field, but we couldn't as > the jira was CLOSED. > > > > Jarcec > > > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:45:49PM -0400, Israel Ekpo wrote: > >> Team, > >> > >> I have noticed some issues are in RESOLVED state and others are in > CLOSED > >> state. > >> > >> I wanted to find out when we can use RESOLVED and when we can used > CLOSED > >> for the status of an issue. > >> > >> For instance, some issues have been marked as resolved for 12 months or > >> longer. > >> > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1015 > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-215 > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-694 > >> > >> A quick lookup on these JIRA statuses suggest that: > >> > >> *RESOLVED* > >> Implies that a resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting > verification > >> by reporter. From here issues are either reopened, or are closed. > >> > >> *CLOSED* > >> Implies that the issue is considered finished, the resolution is > correct. > >> Issues which are closed can be reopened. > >> > >> I think we should go over some of the issues that are marked as > RESOLVED to > >> see if thier status should be set to CLOSED. > >> > >> Here are some 800+ issues in RESOLVED state > >> > >> http://bit.ly/XYZ3Vz > >> > >> It looks like RESOLVED is not the final state these issue should be. If > the > >> reporter believes that the issue has been addressed satisfactorily, it > >> should be marked as CLOSED. > >> > >> Any thoughts? > > -- > Alexander Alten-Lorenz > http://mapredit.blogspot.com > German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF >
