Re: JIRA issue types

[Craig L Russell]

On Feb 6, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Kevin Sutter wrote:

I'd agree with this assessment. New Features are bigger pieces of work -- more design, documentation, marketing, etc. Improvements are smaller bits

of work.  Still may need some documentation tweaks, but these type of
changes would not make a big splash with marketing.

+1

Craig

On 2/5/07, Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I like to reserve New Feature to high level new stuff that should be
marketed.  Normally, I like to break these down into bite-sized sub
tasks.  Most other changes are bug fixes or iterative improvements to
the code base.

-dain

On Feb 5, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:

> Hi,
>

> and a "New Feature"? My hope is that "Improvement" is a strict
> superset
> of "New Feature".
>
> Should we strive to use "Improvement" rarely, only for bits of
> functionality that exist but need to be nominally tweaked, and use
> "New

> need tweaks in code?
>
> -Patrick
>
> --
> Patrick Linskey
> BEA Systems, Inc.
>

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> Does anyone understand what the difference is between an "Improvement" > Feature" for other things? Maybe "New Feature" is for things that will > need mentioning in docs etc, and "Improvement" is for things that just > _____________________________________________________________________ _

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