Thank you Jacques! I am also very confident that this will greatly improve our usage of the information in Jira; it took me time to learn how to implement it properly and I am quite happy now about the new setup. Now we shouldn't need to manually maintain in Confluence a what's new page.
Jacopo On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks like a great improvement for users, thanks Jacopo! > > Jacques > > Le 14/07/2014 10:27, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : >> To all the committers. >> >> I have recently updated some of the information in Jira to make a better use >> of this tool: over time this should have a positive impact in the >> information we will gather and distribute for releases and it will simplify >> release scheduling. >> In order to capture the proper information in Jira when a ticket is resolved >> or a patch is committed we need to properly set the "Fix Version/s" field; >> so please read the following notes that describe the new guidelines: >> >> * specify in the "Fix Version/s" the codebase(s) to which you have committed >> the patch/fix; you can select from the dropdown one or more of the items >> under the "Unreleased Versions" group in the top part of the drop down box; >> you should never use one of the items in the "Released Versions" section >> (bottom part); if the fix/patch is submitted to "Trunk" then select >> "Upcoming Branch"; if you are backporting/committing to a release branch >> then select the latest (next) release version in that branch available in >> the dropdown. >> >> For example at the moment the *valid* items for the "Fix Version/s" field >> are: >> * 11.04.05 (for commits to the branch named release11.04) >> * 12.04.04 (for commits to the branch named release12.04) >> * 13.07.01 (for commits to the branch named release13.07) >> * Upcoming Branch (for commits to trunk) >> >> When we will create the new branch (e.g. 14.08) we will rename "Upcoming >> Branch" to "14.08.01" and we will create a new Jira version with the name >> "Upcoming Branch". In this way each future release will have a complete list >> of tickets associated to it i.e. the changelog. >> After some time the following Jira reports will contain very useful >> information: >> * Road Map (what is expected in upcoming releases): >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:roadmap-panel >> * Change Log (what is available in released packages available from the >> Download page): >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:changelog-panel >> >> Thanks! >> >> Jacopo >> > > --
