If this distinction is valuable (which sounds to be the case based on Rick's explanation), then I agree with Larry's suggestion to avoid having someone spend a lot of time re-categorizing issues in bulk.
So, defects are of type Bug, and new features are Improvement type issues? On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Rick Kellogg <rmkell...@comcast.net> wrote: > Greetings, > > The primary reason I spent some time updating this field was to allow > searching for bugs. When I use an open source project and something does > not work, I generally take a look at the outstanding bugs in a project. If > this is not set it can take an inordinate amount of time to wade through > all the issues. > > A suggestion might be to leave the field blank and make it required in the > JIRA setup. This would force people to pick an suitable value. Just a > suggestion though. > > Happy holidays to everyone. > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: larry mccay [mailto:lmc...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 7:27 AM > To: dev@knox.apache.org; Kellogg, Richard M. (CIV) < > richard.m.kell...@usdoj.gov> > Subject: [DISCUSS] Proper Use of JIRA Type Field > > All - > > As you may have seen, Rick Kellogg spent what seems like a good amount of > time yesterday cleaning up and setting the Type field in the JIRAs to > appropriate values. > > If we feel that this is a worthwhile task then we should probably try and > set it to a meaningful value as they come in - as to not allow that to get > out of control again. > > I have certainly been neglectful of this field and only pay attention to > the type of a patch when it comes to updating the CHANGES file for a > release. > > @Rick - would you like to describe your motivation for doing all that > cleanup (which was much appreciated, btwenera)? > > thanks, > > --larry > >
