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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:06:31 +0300
From: "Oleg Khaschansky" <oleg.v.khaschansky@gmail.com>
To: dev@harmony.apache.org
Subject: Re: [general] JIRA issue search problem
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> 1) Contributor assignee field for everybody (if a committer working on patch
> preparation he/she should use this field). Also, for example, if it's
> non-null then the status of unresolved JIRA is "In progress" automatically.
> 2) Committer assignee field for committers
> 3) Everybody could set "Patch available" tag (another option is: JIRA
> contributor assignee, JIRA author or committers coud set this tag)

+1.
The suggested improvements could be extremely useful for non-committers.

On 12/15/06, Mikhail Markov <mikhail.a.markov@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for this solution. How about the following structure:
> 1) Contributor assignee field for everybody (if a committer working on patch
> preparation he/she should use this field). Also, for example, if it's
> non-null then the status of unresolved JIRA is "In progress" automatically.
> 2) Committer assignee field for committers
> 3) Everybody could set "Patch available" tag (another option is: JIRA
> contributor assignee, JIRA author or committers coud set this tag)
>
> Regards,
> Mikhail
>
> On 12/15/06, Alexey Petrenko <alexey.a.petrenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2006/12/14, Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir@pobox.com>:
> > > Alexey Petrenko wrote:
> > > > I've just realized that I forgot about my another favorit search: "My
> > > > unresolved".
> > > > So I believe that contributors will be happy to have possibility to
> > > > assign issues to themselves. But as I said using Assignee field for
> > > > this is a bad idea...
> > > >
> > > > Is that possible to create another field, lets say "Contributor
> > > > assignee" with the possibility to assign every registered JIRA user to
> > > > this field? Geir?
> > > >
> > > > Is this makes sense? Thoughts?
> > > What is it used for?  A non-committer asignee?
> > When contributor starts working on the issue he can assing an issue to
> > himself in special assignee field. In this case he can filter all the
> > issues he working on and others can filter all assigned issues.
> >
> > This should help non-committers in searching for free to fix issues a lot.
> >
> > SY, Alexey
> >
> > > > 2006/12/14, Alexei Zakharov <alexei.zakharov@gmail.com>:
> > > >> I've just imagined a bad guy who don't want particular JIRA to be
> > > >> fixed (by some reason). He assigns this JIRA and logs off forever. So
> > > >> the JIRA is in assigned state and no one else tries to work on it.
> > > >> What should we do in this case?
> > > > We will have the same result now if some bad guy will write a comment
> > > > that he works on the issue :)
> > > >
> > > > SY, Alexey
> > > >
> > > >> 2006/12/14, Alexey Petrenko <alexey.a.petrenko@gmail.com>:
> > > >> > Guys,
> > > >> >
> > > >> > this thread is created as a result of  "[general] Wise JIRA
> > > >> processing" thread.
> > > >> > Few people concerned that it is difficult to find a free JIRA issue
> > to
> > > >> > work on. And I agree with this concern.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Committer can assign the issue to himself when he is starting to
> > > >> > investigate the issue. And others can filter for non-assigned
> > issues.
> > > >> > But non-committer can not set any flag for the issue to let other
> > > >> > people to filter.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I do not think that granting possibility to non-committers to
> > assign
> > > >> > issues is a good idea since it will remove the possibility for
> > > >> > committers to filter non-assigned bugs to commit.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I suggest to let non-committers to set and unset "in progress"
> > > >> > property. In this case non-committer will add comment to the issue
> > > >> > that he started investigation and will set the "in progress"
> > property.
> > > >> > And others will can filter issues by this field.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Thoughts?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Geir, is this possible at all? :)
> > > >> >
> > > >> > SY, Alexey
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Alexei Zakharov,
> > > >> Intel ESSD
> > > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>