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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:53:53 -0700
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Subject: Re: JIRA dashboard widgets
From: Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io>
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I find this view helpful for understanding the amount of work
remaining for a particular release. http://goo.gl/VDKsB

JIRA urls are horrifying.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Patrick Mueller <pmuellr@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just noticed this on my JIRA dashboard:
>
> =A0 =A0http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6880535202_006c6e502d_o.jpg
>
> Bummer that these are transient images that I had to 'paste' to flickr. =
=A0:-(
>
> And let me start off by saying I'm not concerned about the "redness" of t=
he
> graphic. =A0It's not clear what it's even showing me. =A0For instance, I'=
m in a
> habit of closing issues, but not resolving them. =A0So, I'm guessing the
> created vs closed graph would look "less red".
>
> What I'm really wondering is if we're annotating our issues, or if we wan=
t
> to, in such a way that we could do some potentially more meaningful graph=
s.
> =A0For instance, it would be interesting to see "issues created for versi=
on
> x.y.z vs. issues closed for version x.y.z". =A0But you actually just want=
 to
> see the differential of those values, in which case the lifetime of such =
a
> chart for would look more "bell curve" shaped than "increasing monotonic"=
.
> =A0Give you sort of an idea of how much work went on. =A0Kinda. =A0Maybe =
not.
> =A0Maybe how close we are to finishing a release?
>
> This would likely require diligence in annotating issues. =A0Which I'll a=
dmit
> is a quality I don't have. =A0:-)
>
> Not out of the question we could do this during "planning" calls though.
>
> And then, in general, has anyone found any other JIRA dashboard widgets t=
o
> be useful? =A0I currently have four lists of issues on the left hand side=
 of
> my dashboard: Watched Issues, Assigned to Me, Filtered results for a
> "weinre" filter I created, Filtered results for a "opened by me" filter
> (that I couldn't believe I had to create myself - nothing built-in for
> this?). =A0Between those 4, I typically can find anything I'm looking for=
,
> fairly quickly.
>
> --
> Patrick Mueller
> http://muellerware.org