I think this is good for every large project. I am glad you pitched it as a suggestion and not a "rule" though. No use fighting over this. Let's all try to do this.
Dennis Byrne >-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:49 AM >To: 'MyFaces Dev mailing list' >Subject: Suggestion: Jira issues for all non-sandbox changes > >One of the things we do for the Cayenne project which has really >helped the Cayenne team out is to create a Jira issue for all changes. > This makes creating release notes (as well as tracking behavior >changes) easy -- there's always a record of it in issue tracking >system. > >I'd like to suggest that MyFaces begins to do the same thing for Impl >and Tomahawk. I don't consider it to be as important for sandbox >components. > >As things stand, someone might fix an unreported bug in snapshot, but >someone else using a released version reports it later, and no one >(other than the fixer) knows that it's already been taken care of. > >Worse is the case where someone changes behavior, creating a new >problem "somewhere" in the code, but no one knows who or exactly where >short of searching through every commit message, and the original >person changing the code isn't monitoring the discussion on the issue. >
