On 03/14/2010 12:06 PM, Rainer Jung wrote:
On 14.03.2010 08:07, Mladen Turk wrote:
Hi,
I would suggest that we use JIRA instead maintaining STATUS.txt files.
Each branch can then be a separate component and each status vote
JIRA issue classified as either bug, feature, etc...
Voting is supported except that one cannot vote for the created issue,
so that would be presumed.
However there is no -1 vote, so that would have to be done like
today by entering the comment with -1.
Nice thing is that patches can be directly attached without the need to
scp to the people.a.o.
If we decide on that I'll work with IT to allow only committers
write access.
Comments?
Benefits are not clear for me. Copying to p.a.o is just one scp command,
faster than fiddling with a browser GUI. STATUS file can be prepared
locally and svn is fast.
What do we gain from switching to JIRA?
The problem with status file is that it gets constantly
recycled. There is no clear way to obtain actual patches
applied without going trough SVN log between versions.
Changelog is fine but it doesn't contain a reference to
the actual commit.
There is also no way to record why some feature wasn't
applied. I can clearly show that at some time one feature
vas vetoed and one year later it passed (proposed by another
committer). So either the original veto was not appropriate,
that person changed opinion, or was on vacation :)
Since it was removed from status once when applied, the
only way to track that down is doing svn diff. matching
changelog with commit messages and so on.
Also when there are 3 +1 in status one that proposed
a patch can apply it and recycle status. Again if
you are not fast enough, you might just skip that
and find yourself chasing sudden bugs all over the SVN.
I personally find JIRA much easier to work with cause
everything needed is at one place.
Regards
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