Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-06 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Taher Response inline Thanks Sharan On 2016-09-06 12:37 (+0200), Taher Alkhateeb wrote: > Hi Sharan, Everyone, > > Great work on the JIRA -> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Guidelines+for+Using+Jira > > I like the fact that you denote all

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-06 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Michael Responses inline. On 2016-09-06 12:55 (+0200), Michael Brohl wrote: > +1 on the Wiki page effort, it's great! > > Not sure about the issue importance: for me, this is more an indicator > of how much this issue affects the project instead of a priority to

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-06 Thread Michael Brohl
Please forget about my statement about priority, it IS Priority what we are talking about... Sorry for the confusion, Michael Am 06.09.16 um 12:55 schrieb Michael Brohl: +1 on the Wiki page effort, it's great! Not sure about the issue importance: for me, this is more an indicator of how

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-06 Thread Michael Brohl
+1 on the Wiki page effort, it's great! Not sure about the issue importance: for me, this is more an indicator of how much this issue affects the project instead of a priority to deal with it. I would leave it as that and maybe introduce a new field for priority (if we do not already have

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-06 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
Hi Sharan, Everyone, Great work on the JIRA -> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Guidelines+for+Using+Jira I like the fact that you denote all issues for trunk as being either minor or trivial. This does not mean they are not important or do not contain a lot of hard work.

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-05 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi Sharan, I saw you created https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Guidelines+for+Using+Jira In this thread I suggested We could start by extracting this section

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-05 Thread Jacques Le Roux
I think one thing we should consider before all the rest is Jiras issues with patches. Those are more valuable than others and patches have a disconcerting tendency to become stale, we should avoid that. I have a rule for that (I did not invent it, thanks Internet): the 10 min rule. If I

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-05 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Taher +1 You have raised some good actionable points here. I think you are right that the Jira guidelines need be completely separated out into something that is clear and can be used as an easy reference. I will create a wiki page to start pulling the information together. Thanks Sharan

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-04 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 03/09/2016 à 07:56, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit : - Add a wiki page (if one does not exist) documenting: - Guidelines for writing JIRA mentioning clarity, provision of solution. - A clear definition of priorities (blocker, critical, major, minor, trivial) with some examples. We could start

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-03 Thread Ashish Vijaywargiya
+1, jira cleanup is an important step that should be taken care as soon as we can. Kind Regards Ashish Vijaywargiya HotWax Systems - est. 1997 On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Taher Alkhateeb wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > As of this writing, we have 3 blocker, 6

Re: Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-03 Thread Michael Brohl
Hi Taher, I fully agree with your analysis of the overall state of our Jira issues! Except the first two statements but simply because I haven't had a deeper look in the mentioned issues yet. I'd like to help with the guidelines if we decide to have them. Regards, Michael Brohl ecomify

Taking action on problems with using JIRA

2016-09-02 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
Hi Everyone, As of this writing, we have 3 blocker, 6 critical 733 major, 521 minor and 50 trivial open JIRAs and I note: - I think none of the blocker and critical JIRAs belong in that category. - It is also unrealistic to have 733 major issues. it is like saying we have that many serious