Re: Using the patch-available workflow in Jira (Was: Jackrabbit 1.6 release plan)

[Ian Boston <ie...@tfd.co.uk>]

+1
Ian

On 26 May 2009, at 14:11, Jukka Zitting wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2009/5/25 Cédric Damioli <ce...@anyware-tech.com>:
>> We provided a patch several months ago, but AFAIK nobody reviewed it.
>
> We've now had already a few cases like this where a perfectly good
> patch gets overlooked for months at a time. That's not a a good sign,
> so I'd like to find some way to fix this.
>
> We currently have almost 300 open issues in Jira, so unless you
> already know which issue has a patch available it's hard to go looking
> for patches to apply. To avoid this problem I'd like to adopt the
> "no-reopen-closed, patch-avail" workflow in our main Jira project. The
> JCR Commons component projects in Jira have already been set up with
> this workflow.
>
> This workflow is just like what we have now with two differences:
>
> 1) A closed issue can't be reopened. This works well for our Jira
> practices, as we normally "resolve" an issue when it's fixed and
> "close" it when the fix is released. After that the issue should no
> longer be reopened to avoid
>
> 2) There's a new optional issue status called "patch available". A
> contributor can move an issue from "open" to "patch available", and a
> committer can then move it either back to "open" if the patch is
> rejected or "resolved" if the patch is accepted. The good thing about
> this is that with this extra status we can easily list just those
> issues that have patches waiting for review.
>
> Any objections to changing the workflow? If not, then I'll change the
> Jira settings accordingly.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting