On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Benjamin Mahler <benjamin.mah...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Don't forget that folks accidentally do things all the time in JIRA,


or in life :)
eh eh I never forget that


> so if
> you fence off the ability to go back you make an accident permanent, or
> does JIRA have some undo support I'm unaware of?
>

I am pretty sure that we can alter the state of a given issue to move it
back to 'Open' (even if, as you pointed out, we need to take a detour via
'in progress') - but let me do some investigation and figure this one out.

Thanks!


>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Marco Massenzio <ma...@mesosphere.io>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Benjamin Mahler <
> > benjamin.mah...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > To go from "accepted" to "open" you need to go through "in progress"?
> > >
> > > That part wasn't changed from before?
> > Anyways, why would you ever want to do that?
> >
> > This means that, at some point we looked at something, thought we would
> > want to do that (at some point in future) then, eventually, changed our
> > mind (we no longer want to do it) but will think some more at some other
> > future point and (maybe) re-accept it?
> >
> > This seems an unlikely scenario? more likely, you figured out it wasn't a
> > good idea after all (or maybe it turned out to be a duplicate - or some
> > other features took the problem away) and we can move directly to
> > "resolved".
> >
> > Granted, we can obviously add an "unaccept" transition, but I would much
> > prefer to keep this simple to avoid confusing people.
> > (and, as you correctly pointed out, there is a path back to 'Open' if we
> > really want to).
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Marco Massenzio <ma...@mesosphere.io>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions: quick feedback was much
> > > > appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > I've updated the Google Doc, I think we're in good shape, I'll wait
> > until
> > > > Friday to hear if anyone has still objections, then I'll work with
> Jake
> > > > (thanks for offer to help!) to implement it.
> > > >
> > > > *Marco Massenzio*
> > > > *Distributed Systems Engineer*
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Marco Massenzio <
> ma...@mesosphere.io>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Till Toenshoff <toensh...@me.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Very helpful Marco… I like the idea of tightening our JIRA
> workflow.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> +1 removing “closed"
> > > > >>
> > > > > done
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >> +1 “reviewable” back to "in progress" — to me this is a very
> helpful
> > > > >> signal for longer lasting comment addressing
> > > > >>
> > > > > done
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >> +1 making sure that “accepted" is the gatekeeper and includes
> > > assigning
> > > > >> the maintainer as a default shepherd — should we even go as far as
> > to
> > > > >> prevent  “assigning” issues that have not gotten “accepted” and
> > > > “shepherd
> > > > >> assigned” ?
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > > let's not gate fixing the workflow to my achieving the next level
> of
> > > > > Jira-Wizardry :)
> > > > > the goal can be achieved by education (and enforcement of the
> policy)
> > > > >
> > > > > I am totally in favor of asking folks NOT to work on non-accepted
> > > stories
> > > > > (or, conversely, if they come across issues that are NOT accepted,
> > but
> > > > want
> > > > > to do work and/or investigation, to assign to themselves and move
> to
> > > > > "accepted" state).
> > > > >
> > > > > +1 removing “reopened" as it has no extra value for us
> > > > >>
> > > > >> it's history!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >> Resolving without accepting to me sounds like a shortcut that we
> > might
> > > > >> want to prevent as it could be a bad example?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> > On Jun 10, 2015, at 12:00 AM, Marco Massenzio <
> > ma...@mesosphere.io>
> > > > >> wrote:
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Hadn't realized that the mailing list forwarder would make the
> > > images
> > > > >> unavailable, apologies about that.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > I've created this Google Doc <
> > > > >>
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KQIyEzFP3LF05FkW81SYcG50-HaACD2u-f2SPVAERI8/edit
> > > > >
> > > > >> which should be open and accessible.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Again, please let me know if anyone feels strongly that we
> should
> > > keep
> > > > >> the current workflow.
> > > > >> > Thanks!
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Marco Massenzio
> > > > >> > Distributed Systems Engineer
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Marco Massenzio <
> > > ma...@mesosphere.io
> > > > >> <mailto:ma...@mesosphere.io>> wrote:
> > > > >> > Folks,
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Please take a look at MESOS-2806: in a nutshell, our current
> > > workflow
> > > > >> is rather convoluted and brings about a host of issues, when
> > managing
> > > > >> tasks' status transitions (detailed in the Jira - see screenshots
> > > > there).
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > This is what it currently looks like:
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > (spaghetti workflow? :)
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > I would propose to simplify it to the following:
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > I'm sure we can think up all sorts of corner cases, but I would
> > > submit
> > > > >> that simplicity would trump complexity and allow us to track
> > progress
> > > > (or
> > > > >> lack thereof) of stories/tasks/bugs in a much more punctual
> manner.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Anyone against it?
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Marco Massenzio
> > > > >> > Distributed Systems Engineer
> > > > >> >
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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