We can redefine them as we see fit, and it fairly easy to do bulk changes on 
existing issues to re-assign components.


On Mar 22, 2011, at 8:05 PM, David Hearnden wrote:

> Are those components something that can be refined later?  i.e., could we 
> start with high-level categories, and later refine them as needed?  Or are 
> those categories set in stone at setup time?  That might strongly influence 
> the component list.
> 
> (I've never used JIRA)
> 
> -Dave
> 
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Michael MacFadden 
> <michael.macfad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am starting to set up Jira.  Typically one of the first things to be done 
> is to define the components.  These components would be ones that we would 
> want to target issues to.  I would like to get some input on what the 
> components should be.  Things to keep in mind:
> 
> 1)  How granular do we want to be.  Would "server" and "web client" suffice, 
> or do we need things like the wave panel vs the wave list vs the profile 
> management section etc.
> 
> 2)  What naming convention would we use?  There is only really one level of 
> components, no nesting.  So we might have things like Web Client - Wave Panel 
> and Server - Mongo DB Persistence, etc.
> 
> 3)  The point of defining components is so that the groups of people who 
> typically work on those components can filter the issue list based on those 
> components.  While the architecture might logically be broken down in to 
> certain components, if it doesn't improve our ability to manage the issues, 
> then they don't have to line up 1 to 1.
> 
> 
> Suggestions and input would be great.  One small request, lets try to stay at 
> a high level here and not go down rabbit holes discussing a particular 
> possible component as nauseum.  Thanks.
> 
> ~Michael
> 

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