Hi Taher +1
You have raised some good actionable points here. I think you are right that the Jira guidelines need be completely separated out into something that is clear and can be used as an easy reference. I will create a wiki page to start pulling the information together. Thanks Sharan On 2016-09-03 07:56 (+0200), Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > As of this writing, we have 3 blocker, 6 critical 733 major, 521 minor and > 50 trivial open JIRAs and I note: > > - I think none of the blocker and critical JIRAs belong in that category. > - It is also unrealistic to have 733 major issues. it is like saying we > have that many serious problems > - I think a realistic distribution would have a pyramid count with a max > (pyramid base) being trivial JIRAs. > - A substantial number of jiras is old and no longer applicable. > - A substantial number of jiras is vague and not understandable, poorly > written, without enough details to work on. > - A substantial amount of jiras are placeholders for something to do > without proper thinking and planning, which would make them unrealistic or > not applicable. > - Some JIRAs are extremely granular. For example a task broken to subtasks > each for a tiny amount of work that is not worth the time and effort of > making so many tasks. > > So I think our issue tracking system is not properly used and we have many > JIRAs that are not useful and distracting. I propose the following actions: > > - Add a wiki page (if one does not exist) documenting: > - Guidelines for writing JIRA mentioning clarity, provision of solution. > - A clear definition of priorities (blocker, critical, major, minor, > trivial) with some examples. > - A description of meaning of assignee and how to use it > - A description of other metadata and how to properly use it (tags, > components, affects version, etc...) > - we need to close all old, not applicable, vague and poorly written JIRAs > as per wiki guidelines. Alternatively authors can rewrite JIRAs to comply > with guidelines. > - We need to fix priorities of all remaining JIRAs as per wiki guidelines > > This would give us a realistic view of the _real_ issues in OFBiz instead > of drowning in so many JIRAs many of which are hindering rather than > helping. > > What do you think? > > Taher Alkhateeb >
