Cool! A select list for "Estimated Complexity" sounds fab! (with fewer options tho' :-) )
Tim Leo Simons wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:48:29PM +0000, Tim Ellison wrote: >> (Geez, that component word is overloaded...) > > No kidding! > >> What do you think about having a new JIRA component called "Classlib - >> Newcomer" where we can put bugs that are good candidates for people to >> start with? > > Suboptimal. Jira can do so much more! > >> I experimented with modifying the issue summary to have a structured >> keyword ( #easy# or something ), but it's a bit of a hack, and I don't >> see any way to produce a URL for a filter that will find them easily. >> >> This is part of the wider goal to make it easy for people to contribute >> to Harmony. Other suggestions welcome of course. > > Another option is to have a custom field. Eg we could have something like > an > > "Estimated Complexity" > > field, and then make the select list of values something such as > > Unknown > Novice > Moderate > Advanced > Guru > Needs James Gosling > > with "Uknown" as the default value. Having a plain text field is > also possible, as well as several others (multiple selection list, > textarea, checkboxes). Hmm. Checkbox might be what you described > above, eg you have a checkbox like > > [ ] Easy to fix > > when you create or edit an issue. > > Yet another option is to (ab)use one of the other fields, such as > "priority", "status" or "resolution". I've also seen the "version" > dimension abused for this (eg create an "easy" version). Me being the > semantic web enthusiast I am, I like having a specific field. (Really > what we want here is not clear to me yet. I also just don't know what > we should call this thing. Its possible to create a "summary view" > that includes this stuff and define searches/filters for them. > > I can set that up (as can about a 100 other people with jira admin > privileges, probably at least Geir too, I suspect Dims too), just > need to know what we want. > > LSD > > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
