Hmmm, and come to think of it I'm pretty sure I resolved some "fix
versions" as "trunk", which is also incorrect.

Well, now I know.

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Erick Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you look at the "history" tab on the JIRA you can see who set what
> values when. I checked 4-5 of the JIRAS and the person who set those
> has a long record of being very conscientious about changes so I'm
> certain it's just an awareness issue, at least for that person. I'll
> ping....
>
> Which suggests a way to raise awareness going forward: check the
> history and send a message.
>
> If that doesn't cure it we can consider harsher measures, although I
> don't think forbidding arbitrary labels is "harsh", it's just too bad
> we can't.
>
> Erick
>
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I wish hossman was still more active in this type of thing. He would have
>> sworn more and fixed it more meticulously and probably earlier. Or maybe he
>> is sick of it after last time. Anyway, I did what I could, preserved the
>> proper versions I could, and it's clean again for now.
>>
>> I'm halfway serious about the admin thing given you can easily auto create
>> components and versions by accident. Maybe instead of giving it to everyone
>> by default, we should be doing it by request.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:29 AM Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps everyone doesn't need to be a JIRA admin? Like people that add new
>>> bad versions in the future ;) This is no fun to cleanup.
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:23 AM Mark Miller <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bummer, seems we can't lock this down :(
>>>> https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-42068
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:42 AM Mark Miller <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:37 AM Cassandra Targett
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I noticed these the other day also, and had an email half-wrote that I
>>>>>> intended to finish up today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To start, JIRA unfortunately makes this really easy to make a mess of
>>>>>> - if you can create or edit an issue, you can just pop in a new value
>>>>>> that gets added to the list of open versions. Editing an issue is open
>>>>>> to lots of folks - committers, contributors, the reporter of an issue.
>>>>>> So, we have high potential for this to be an ongoing problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, that makes this a lot less baffling I guess.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But, since only committers can commit patches and are thus the usual
>>>>>> resolvers of an issue, committers either aren't paying enough
>>>>>> attention to that field when they resolve an issue or there is
>>>>>> confusion/difference of understanding about what that field is
>>>>>> supposed to mean.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are currently 49 issues for Solr that have these "non-standard"
>>>>>> versions [1]. Some date back before the most recent 6.5.0 release,
>>>>>> which means there are issues fixed in 6.4 and 6.5 (at least) which
>>>>>> don't say so in JIRA.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This could be really problematic going forward. We need to agree that
>>>>>> when issues are resolved, the fixVersion field is reliable and means
>>>>>> the same thing to everyone.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> +1!
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> IMO we should always use the *next* version that makes sense at that
>>>>>> time. So, an issue resolved today would be "6.6" and "master (7.0)".
>>>>>> Others may have different points of view on how we should do this, but
>>>>>> I think traditionally it's been the way I suggest, so if there is
>>>>>> change desired there, we should discuss it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Side note: I know there is some doubt today that 6.6 will ever exist.
>>>>>> However, it will be a lot easier to go through JIRA to remove "6.6"
>>>>>> from issues that aren't in 6.x than it will be to review
>>>>>> issue-by-issue everything that says "6x" or "6.x" or "branch_6x",
>>>>>> etc., and figure out when it was actually released.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> +1. It also matches how we handle CHANGES afaict.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wish we could disable the auto creating of versions entirely somehow,
>>>>> but I guess the next best thing is to raise awareness. It's great to have
>>>>> the correct versions and in the correct ordering.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cassandra
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] Query for JIRA issues:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SOLR%20AND%20status%20in%20(Resolved%2C%20Closed)%20AND%20fixVersion%20in%20(6.x%2C%206x%2C%20branch_6x)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Mark Miller <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Who keeps adding strange JIRA release versions? I've cleaned up
>>>>>> > strange ones
>>>>>> > in the past and they keep coming back.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Why do we have branch6x, 6x and 6.x and trunk?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Even if we wanted more than 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.1 and master (7.0), and I
>>>>>> > don't
>>>>>> > think we do, who keeps adding these duplicates? Let's come to some
>>>>>> > sanity
>>>>>> > here.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > - Mark
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>>>>>> > - Mark
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