Hi, I am interested to work on some JIRAs for the next SCA release. As I searched the JIRAs, I realized that it is not easy to identify where help is needed! I am sharing this information with you because others like me might be running into the same issue. For example, some JIRAs are very old. Does it make sense to work on those? Some JIRAs contain exchanges of information between 2 or more people and are not assigned to anyone, does that mean they are open for grab?
I noticed the following cases where JIRA status can easily be updated to get SCA JIRAs into a state that truly reflects the work that needs to be done. I sign up for going through the JIRAs and help clean up the easy ones if there is agreement on the approach. - Some of the JIRAs are really old and are not relevant any longer. *Can JIRAs that have been created prior to .90 be closed as not relevant since architecture changed?* - Some of the JIRAs have been created during evaluation of prior releases (RCs). They contain comments such as 'did not make it' to the release. *Can these be targeted for next release so that they get evaluated?* - Some of the JIRAs contain conversations that did not complete. Only the people who were involved in the half finished conversation would know what to do with these JIRAs. It would be useful to get these to a proper JIRA state, that is 'close' or 'open'. What is the best approach for handling these? I can help generate a list and share it on the ML if it is helpful given that there are 170 JIRAs. - Some JIRAs contain a response, for example 'problem does not exist in the latest release', and yet they are in an open state. It might be that it is expected of the originator to close the JIRA. *Should these be closed?* Meanwhile, I think I have identified some JIRAs that I can work on myself. There are many JIRAs under sample category that need to be validated against the current release to see if they are relevant or not. I'll start with those, but if you already know what the status of these JIRAs should be, it would be good if you could change the status to what it should be before I spend time on them :) Haleh
