If you have full control on your Jira installation, you could define a custom field named "changes entry and credits". This field could be used for a report.
But we have no separate installation to have all control. Uwe "Robert Muir" <[email protected]> schrieb: >On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) ><[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Robert, >> >> True, JIRA isn't a perfect solution for this matter, but works good >enough usually since many times (especially with prodding) those same >users who report the bugs are those that report the JIRA issues. >> > >I agree it would be more ideal if we always tried to encourage users >to open JIRA issues. >But we cant "force" users to do this, you know and we should still fix >it + give them credit if they just don't reply at all. > >I also agree with some of what Steven is saying: here's a concrete >example from 2.9.4 (just released): > >CHANGES file: >LUCENE-2658: Exceptions while processing term vectors enabled for >multiple fields could lead to invalid ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions. > >JIRA description: >LUCENE-2658: TestIndexWriterExceptions random failure: AIOOBE in >ByteBlockPool.allocSlice > >So you see the story, i hit a random test failure and just opened an >issue describing that the test randomly failed. >Mike then went and fixed it and wrote up a CHANGES.txt entry thats >significantly better to the users. > >In order for us to use JIRA here, we would have to do a lot of >JIRA-editing and re-organizing I think, and probably create a lot of >unnecessary issues. > >For example, on some issues that I felt should only be "fixed" in >later releases, i wanted to still backport "documentation only" fixes >to 2.9.4/3.0.3. >Documentation only fixes aren't very risky and at least alert users to >the issue... but it would be bad if CHANGES.txt made them think it was >actually fixed! > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, 28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
