Question about JIRA fields

[Kevin Sweeney <ke...@apache.org>]

Hey all,

We have "Fix Version", "Target Version" and "Affects Version" fields in
JIRA. I've got a question - should we always set "Fix Version" to the next
upcoming release regardless of whether a bug actually existed in a previous
release?

For example, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-801 was
introduced after 0.5.0 but fixed before 0.6.0 was released. Does it make
sense to set "Fix Version" to 0.6.0?

I get that "Target Version" is more of an "aspirational" field, i.e. we
hope to fix this before we release version X.

"Fix Version" to me says that "the fix for this is in version X" but that
implies that the bug affects versions less than X (or is that what "Affects
version" is for?). So which should we set here?

For Story type issues (features that don't yet exist), "Affects Version"
seems superfluous given that the feature wouldn't exist before the "Fix
Version".

So what fields, if any, should I set for AURORA-801?

Re: Question about JIRA fields

[Chris Lambert <cl...@twitter.com.INVALID>]

Target Version can be used until a release is cut.  If we mark all tickets
here with the next release, the dev on commit or the release manager can
then update the Fix Version for tickets actually in the release.

This has been useful on other projects when there are more tickets trying
to get out the door.

Chris


On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Kevin Sweeney <ke...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> We have "Fix Version", "Target Version" and "Affects Version" fields in
> JIRA. I've got a question - should we always set "Fix Version" to the next
> upcoming release regardless of whether a bug actually existed in a previous
> release?
>
> For example, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-801 was
> introduced after 0.5.0 but fixed before 0.6.0 was released. Does it make
> sense to set "Fix Version" to 0.6.0?
>
> I get that "Target Version" is more of an "aspirational" field, i.e. we
> hope to fix this before we release version X.
>
> "Fix Version" to me says that "the fix for this is in version X" but that
> implies that the bug affects versions less than X (or is that what "Affects
> version" is for?). So which should we set here?
>
> For Story type issues (features that don't yet exist), "Affects Version"
> seems superfluous given that the feature wouldn't exist before the "Fix
> Version".
>
> So what fields, if any, should I set for AURORA-801?
>