On 3/2/06, David M Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Linda Skrocki, our program manager at Sun has been helping out by
> reviewing the bugs in JIRA, looking for duplicates and work that's
> already been completed. She is in the process of CLOSING a lot of
> bugs that I marked RESOLVED. I have always used RESOLVED to indicate
> that a bug is fixed and I'm done working on it. So think of this as a
> "cleanup the database before it's transfered to Apache" measure.
>
> It might be time to have a discussion about how those bug states
> figure into our release process, so we know what to do moving
> forward. Here are the workflow steps in JIRA and how they might be
> interpreted:
>
>     Open - when an issue has arrived
>     In progress - when a developer started working on an issue
>     Resolved - when a developer claims a bug is fixed
>     Reopened - when a resolved issue turns out not to have been resolved
>     Closed - when a tester or end-user verifies that bug is fixed
>
> "Closed" is a tricky one. Who can close a bug? Must that be a
> committer? What if none of our testers are committers? Must a
> committer verify each bug before it is closed?

I believe how JIRA works is that we'll have to close the bug (b/c end
users won't have rights).  I have noticed that issues can't be
re-opened by end users after they've been closed - that's why
"resolved" is nice.

What does JIRA's documentation say?

Matt

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