Jim Gallacher wrote .. > Graham, > > I don't think it's necessary to add an additional JIRA comment when you > commit some code. JIRA will pickup the svn commit as long as the issue > number is mentioned in the svn commit message. People can subscribe to > python-cvs if they want notification of the commits. > > This should save you a bit of work. :) > > Jim
Looking at the bigger picture, I believe that adding the comment to JIRA explicitly saves me work down the track. Where I am coming from is the perspective of a user who has started using mod_python recently and is having a problem. For myself, I find it quite annoying when looking at other third party packages when investigating an issue and find the problem mentioned in a issue tracking system, but then find that it hasn't been updated in a while and thus looks like the software is still broken and isn't about to be fixed. Often one digs further though and finds that it was actually fixed some time back, but because the issue tracking system was never updated to at least mention that it was fixed in the repository you never actually know this. The average person is not going to want to subscribe to some special mailing list to find out about repository commits for a package they have only just started to use. Even if one did this, you aren't going to find out about what has happened in the past from the mailing list. Thus to me, the JIRA system is perfect for recording a full and complete history of what has happened that people can refer to. The only problem at the moment is that the JIRA system still isn't linked from the mod_python home page so people never find it in the first place. So overall I feel it saves me work as people will either find the information themselves and know that if they simply check out latest source code that they will get the fix, or at worst I can respond to questions on the mailing list with a quick link to the JIRA issue and not have to reiterate the same information all over again. I also feel that identifying the revision may be helpful when someone wants to perhaps backport changes to an older version. This may be us, or someone who needs to do it for themselves. Graham > Graham Dumpleton (JIRA) wrote: > > [ > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-124?page=comments#action_12366957 > ] > > > > Graham Dumpleton commented on MODPYTHON-124: > > -------------------------------------------- > > > > Changes to add req.auth_name(), req.auth_type() and make req.ap_auth_type > writable commited into mod_python SVN trunk in revsion 378864. > >
