Hi Nils,
Nils Kaiser pisze:
Well, there is even a nicer way to do this. Depending on which edition
of JIRA Apache has, you could add a Custom field "Fix Version
(Component)" and "Affects Version (Component)". You should be able to do
searches and filters on the field then.
Seems like a very nice solution. Using two custom fields "Affects Version (Component)" and "Fix
Version (Component)" we could give up standard JIRA fields as they only cause unnecessary confusion.
How others feel about such solution?
In fact, I was asking myself of users would provide such detailled
information anyway when they post a new issue. Even if internally, the
software is made of components, a user will still download a version in
the future - on a user's perspective, the bug will be affecting a cocoon
version and not a component version.
Up to date, when releasing Cocoon 2.2 we were focusing on releasing artifacts and putting them on
Maven repository. Most of the time we assume (or at least advise) Maven is used so user already
needs to deal with Cocoon artifacts' versions in her own pom. Moreover, Maven already provides nice
tools to find out what versions are used so we are likely to ask users this information anyway.
Without exact version of artifact (block) we will not be able to help in most cases, IMO.
All in all, it's not a big deal to ask user to fire mvn
project-info-reports:dependencies command.
So maybe its more in the responsibily of the developers to recognize and
manage the component version anyway... in that case the custom field
solution seem to be enough in my opinion.
Or telling user how to provide this information, se above.
Another remark on the splitted JIRA projects approach: what about issues
covering more than one component (for example, feature requests)? Or
where the reporting user does not know which components the error
belongs to? Or where the components are not existing yet?
In that case it is much easier to correct the information when the
issues are all in one project where you can add the component(s)
affected by the issue.
You and others have convinced me that splitting is not such a great idea as I thought previously.
What about this solution?
Anyway, thanks Nils for very useful comments!!
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