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Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:56:28 +0300
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Subject: Re: commit messages and JIRA
From: Mohammad Nour El-Din <nour.mohammad@gmail.com>
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A very big +1

I think we definitely SHOULD do that if not MUST. It helped me a lot
for tracing changes in my work. Also I would recommend something that
we use here, which I proposed and also helps to have double linking
between JIRA and SVN, that is when resolving the JIRA task I asked my
team to comment on that task with the revision number in which they
committed code related to that one.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Kevin Meyer - KMZ <kevin@kmz.co.za> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Sounds like a plan - it'll also (help) ensure that JIRA tickets get creat=
ed
> for all mods.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
>
> On 17 Jul 2011 at 17:23, Dan Haywood wrote:
>
>> Now that we have a first release out, I'd like to ensure that there's
>> some traceability in changes being made... =A0 That way we can be sure
>> that our release notes for subsequent releases will be reasonably
>> comprehensive, as well as meaning that users will gain confidence in us
>> as being a properly-run project.
>>
>> So, what I'd like to propose that any commits that we do to the codebase
>> are cross-referenced to a JIRA ticket. =A0For example, if working on
>> ISIS-105, then the commit message should be something like: "ISIS-105:
>> sorted out formatting".
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dan
>
>
>


--=20
Thanks
- Mohammad Nour
=A0 Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guid=
e)
=A0 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour
- Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com
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