+1 On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am really voting for a backlog target. most probably i won't > implement pca idea by end of december but it doesn't mean i am not > committed to see it thru. There probably will be some progress there > if only in form of working notes and some math and discussions. I need > this stuff to be peer reviewed. Why not have a 'backlog' target and > let it live there? > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected] > >wrote: > >> > >> > - Anything that isn't fixed by December is WontFix and we release > 0.6. > >> > > >> > I realize it's drastic, but it's a coherent position. > >> > >> Not at all drastic and perfectly sane. > > > > > > So regarding JIRA management. I see that Benson and Sean come from > > a viewpoint that long-lived open JIRA tickets are a bad sign, while > people > > like Grant, myself, and to some degree Ted, are used to seeing open > tickets > > in an unresolved state that are used as placeholders which tell the > outside > > observer what has been suggested in the past and what discussions have > > gone on around it, and maybe even has a (currently outdated) patch of > > a proposed solution. > > > > I'm really of the mind that WontFix is meant for "this idea does not fit > at > > all / > > won't work / and we never intend to do this". Good ideas which we don't > > have the bandwidth for are instead unversioned and left open. I think > > WontFix on an "old ticket" sends a message to the person who opened it > > that we're not interested in their contribution, or if it's a bugfix, > that > > we're > > arrogant and don't think they are correct in stating it's an important > bug. > > > > I'd much rather we find an acceptable unresolved state than always push > > for "0 open JIRA tickets". The Hadoop community also has very long lived > > open tickets with slow progress, it's not just Lucene. I think this is > > healthy > > and a nice way to keep track of what people have thought about in the > past. > > > > -jake > > >
