Hello Devs, I would like to propose a new best practice for the way we close issues as Duplicate.
As an example I've reported this issue: http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13728 which was later closed as a Duplicate to http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13729. >From my perspective, this is not correct since the issue I reported is valid from an user's POV. I would have preferred that my issue was renamed and that developers would have added some technical information as a comment to it if they wanted to do so. It just doesn't make any sense to me to close a perfectly valid issue as a Duplicate just to create another one that has a more technically correct summary and description. It also doesn't make sense to close the original issue as a Duplicate to a duplicate issue :) (pun intended) I see things like this: my issue's description is a use-case of the issue later reported by Edy, so if anything, Edy's issue should be closed as a Duplicate to mine and not the other way around. One scenario where I think issues dated previously should be closed as Duplicate is if the new issue has already been fixed. For example when a Developer doesn't notice an older issue and starts working on the new one instead of closing the new one as a Duplicate and work on the older one. There might be more, feel free to add them to this thread. So, what I propose is that we don't close original issues as Duplicate unless it falls into the category previously described or some other exceptions that I can't think of now and might occur. Thanks, Manuel _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
