On 01/27/2011 01:41 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
> On Jan 27, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
>
>> On 01/26/2011 04:41 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> Sorin and Silvia are helping us in term of improving the quality of 
>>> platform/XE/XEM by systematically testing milestones/RCs/final versions.
>>>
>>> They've started a TestReports space on xwiki.org where he's going to put 
>>> all his test reports from now on:
>>> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/TestReports/
>>>
>>> In those reports, when a test fails they'll need to create a JIRA issue 
>>> (instead of pointing to a page on the incubator). This would make it much 
>>> easier for reporting purpose, to see all the issues they've created and for 
>>> us to see all issues found by the Q&A team.
>>>
>>> The problem is that our current JIRA strategy is to NOT create jira issue 
>>> for issues that haven't been "released" already (instead the strategy is to 
>>> comment in them).
>>>
>>> I'm proposing to relax this rule in the following manner:
>>>
>>> * Allow to have "affects" and "fix for" be the same value in JIRA
>>> * Automatically exclude from our release notes issues where "affects" == 
>>> "fixfor"
>>>
>>> In addition IMO it would be good for Sorin/Silvia to:
>>>
>>> * Link the newly created jira to an existing jira
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> +1 provided it is used as a last resort, after:
>>
>> * making sure the issue is not present in the latest release
>> * making sure there aren't any automated tests failing for the same
>> reason (->  devs are already notified)
>> * asking on IRC or mailing list if there were recent changes to the
>> module affected by the issue (->  comment on existing issue)
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> What do others think?

+1 for Marius' suggestions.

> If we agree I'll update xwiki.org

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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