One addition: Before reassigning, developers probably should get an okay from the person to whom they want to reassign. (Otherwise a developer who has done their review as directed in step 1 may end up with tickets that they *still* have no intention of ever working on.)
Judy On Apr 17, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Greg Logan wrote: > Hi folks, > > As discussed in the dev meeting today, Judy and I have been working on a > way to clean up the mess in JIRA. I #propose the following timeline an > actions: > > 1) Developers have until the morning of 2012-04-23 (my time) to review > their assigned tickets. Tickets that they feel won't ever be done (old > fix versions, feature has since been removed, etc) should be closed as > won't fix. Tickets that they feel should be done, but they can't do > should be reassigned. Tickets that they will do but have old fix > versions should be updated with relevant fix versions. It is very > important that the comments accompanying these changes be clear for any > of these actions, we want reporters to realize their tickets are being > modified for a reason. > > 2) On the morning of 2012-04-23 I will bulk resolve all old tickets as > Won't Fix. Tickets which reporters feel are still important can be > reopened, at which point they will be triaged appropriately. Old > tickets are defined as tickets with fix versions of 1.2 and older, as > well as tickets with no fix version which have not been updated within > the last year. The modification comment will make it clear that they > are welcome to reopen the ticket if they feel it is still relevant. > > We still need to come up with a way to triage new tickets going forward, > but I feel like we've been doing a fairly good job recently. This is > only the first pass, but it will remove the vast majority of the junk > tickets which are never going to be fixed. > > G > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
