In a continued effort to cleanup Jira, let's focus on user stories. (User
stories are the way we keep track of feature requests.) We have 250 open story
cards, many of which are surely irrelevant at this point, so it's time to do a
mass cleanout. Jira has a voting mechanism, and this seems like a fairly simple
(if imperfect) way to get a sense of which stories are still relevant.
Therefore, I request that anybody that is using or intends to use Matterhorn
review the list of open stories
<http://opencast.jira.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10589>
and, by July 15th, add a vote to any that are important to your institution.
Adding a vote is a simple matter of selecting "Add Vote" (either from the gear
menu in the Issue Navigator or from the More Actions menu in the ticket
itself). You'll need to have an account on the Matterhorn jira to vote, but not
to review the open stories. (If you want to vote and don't already have an
account, please visit
https://opencast.jira.com/login.jsp?os_destination=%2Fsecure%2FDashboard.jspa
and sign up.)
After July 15th, I will resolve as Won't Fix each open story card UNLESS it
gets at least one vote OR is currently active (which I'm defining as having
been updated in 2012, or having a fix version of 1.5 or later).
Please note that there's no absolute guarantee that stories that get lots of
votes will get attention from developers; it *will* help, however, to
highlight to developers what's important to the community and may increase the
chances that such in-demand features will be addressed. And, if you care about
something, voting is the best way to "keep it alive".
You get extra points (well, you get extra appreciation) if you close a story
because you recognize that it has already been done, or that it's a duplicate.
(Please comment informatively). And, as always, the best thing you can do is to
decide that you will contribute the work to address one of these tickets!
Many thanks in advance for your participation in this activity,
Judy Stern
Educational Technology Services
UC Berkeley
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