> Hi Rafaella, > > > Are you suggesting to remove STARTED and leave NEW and ACCEPTED? > > Yes. Well, strictly, I want to rename today's STARTED to ACCEPTED. > STARTED has never consistently been used - some people use it as "I > started working on the issue", some as "yes, it's mine". We can avoid > this by having ACCEPTED only.
We need TASK... It is useful to let the relevant people know when there is a single task needing attention (such as moving the ISO images to the mirrors after upload). > > >> One thing I'd be interested in getting feedback for is the following > >> question: Do we need the issue types ENHANCEMENT and PATCH? ENHANCEMENT > >> isn't really different from FEATURE (at least in practice, though in > >> theory you could define them differently), so it seems to be > >> superfluous. PATCH, then, could effectively be a TASK with an attachment > >> of type "Patch". > > > > I would go for ISSUE and ENHANCEMENT which - in the latter case can be > > intended as feature, patch or task. > > Well, patches can be non-enhancements, too. Also tasks can be much more > than enhancements, for instance, sometimes we submit tasks to QA > engineers or artists, and fixing those tasks does not really mean fixing > a bug or implementing an enhancement. > So, I think we need DEFECT (I'd prefer to keep that term, instead of > renaming it to ISSUE), ENHANCEMENT (or FEATURE, don't care) and TASK. > > Ciao > Frank > -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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