https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-10086
(apparently, I'm not allowed to add Watchers on an INFRA ticket... weird!)

*Marco Massenzio*
*Distributed Systems Engineer*

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Marco Massenzio <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Vinod Kone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ah. That's confusing.
>
> It gets even more confusing....
>
> ... even doing this, the outcome is "unsatisfactory" - apparently Jira has
> two "classes" of "Unresolved" Resolution - the one where the issue never
> was Resolved, and the one which is attained when following my suggested
> "hack."
> So, if you hit the "My Open Issues"[0] query, you *still* don't get those
> issues, and they still show up struck through.
>
> If you use a hand-crafted query[1] you can see, if you add the Resolution
> column, that they all show "Unresolved" but the genuine ones have it in
> italic, the others in plain text: so I'm assuming Jira behind the scenes
> uses a different metadata set than it appears externally.
>
> [0] JQL: `assignee = currentUser() AND resolution = Unresolved ORDER BY
> updatedDate DESC`
> [1] JQL: `assignee = currentUser() AND status in (Accepted, Reviewable,
> Open, "In Progress")`
>
>
>> Is there no way we can fix the schema to not do this?
>> I'm assuming you already asked INFRA?
>>
>> I haven't and I don't know.  I don't really think it has anything to do
> with our schema: this happened to me before at other places, both with
> on-prem and on-demand Jira.
> I'll file a ticket and see what they say, though.
>
> On a side note, is it possible to make the "Shepherd" field mandatory when
>> a task transitions from Accepted --> Assigned? I think this will force
>> users to find shepherds before they start working on an issue. Will also
>> help shepherds guide what issues we want new contributors to focus on.
>>
>
> I would suggest filing a ticket with INFRA (I don't know and don't have
> the necessary perms to try it out, unfortunately); we must be very clear
> that this should only apply to a *transition* (and I presume, you meant:
> Accepted --> In Progress) otherwise our "backlog grooming" (Open to
> Accepted) becomes too laborious.
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Marco Massenzio <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Dear all:
>> >
>> > When re-opening an issue (for whatever reason) moving it from its
>> Resolved
>> > state (to either Open or In progress) Jira will *not* update the
>> > "Resolution" field back to "Unresolved".
>> >
>> > This means that (a) you now have a confusing "Open but Resolution:
>> Fixed"
>> > issue and (b) the issue link/display (eg, MESOS-1234) will appear with a
>> > misleading strike-through in Sprint and Kanban Boards.
>> >
>> > The solution is rather simple, albeit fiendishly unintuitive:
>> >
>> > 1) Resolve (again) the issue;
>> > 2) in the resolve dialog that pops up, choose "Unresolved" for its
>> > Resolution field;
>> > 3) move it back to whatever state makes sense (Open, In Progress, etc.)
>> >
>> > Hope this helps!
>> >
>> > *Marco Massenzio*
>> > *Distributed Systems Engineer*
>> >
>>
>
>

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