Setting Fix Version in JIRA
Hi, When people add new issues to JIRA they most often don't set the Fix Version field. Would it not be better to have a default value for that field, so that new entries don't get forgotten when we filter by Fix Version looking for issues to fix for the next release? If every issue had Fix Version set we'd be able to schedule things better, give reporters and others more insight into when a particular item will be taken care of, etc. When we are ready for the release we'd just bump all unresolved issues to the next planned version (e.g. Solr 1.3.1 or 1.4 or Lucene 2.4 or 2.9) Thoughts? Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch
Re: Setting Fix Version in JIRA
When people add new issues to JIRA they most often don't set the Fix Version field. Would it not be better to have a default value for that field, so that new entries don't get forgotten when we filter by Fix Version looking for issues to fix for the next release? I think that not setting the value until it's known how big and difficult the issue is would be better. But that's just personal preference I guess. Lars
Re: Setting Fix Version in JIRA
On 23-Sep-08, at 12:33 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: Hi, When people add new issues to JIRA they most often don't set the Fix Version field. Would it not be better to have a default value for that field, so that new entries don't get forgotten when we filter by Fix Version looking for issues to fix for the next release? If every issue had Fix Version set we'd be able to schedule things better, give reporters and others more insight into when a particular item will be taken care of, etc. When we are ready for the release we'd just bump all unresolved issues to the next planned version (e.g. Solr 1.3.1 or 1.4 or Lucene 2.4 or 2.9) -1 I doesn't make sense to automatically schedule something to be fixed in the next version of the product. I would be +1 on automatically setting the fix version for the current unreleased version when an issue is resolved as fixed, though. -Mike
Re: Setting Fix Version in JIRA
Based on our experience with using Jira in this manner, I would agree with Mike that you do not want to automatically assign the Fix Version. Once you go down this path, you wind up with a steadily growing wave of deferred issues that are constantly getting pushed out to the next release. -- Ken When people add new issues to JIRA they most often don't set the Fix Version field. Would it not be better to have a default value for that field, so that new entries don't get forgotten when we filter by Fix Version looking for issues to fix for the next release? If every issue had Fix Version set we'd be able to schedule things better, give reporters and others more insight into when a particular item will be taken care of, etc. When we are ready for the release we'd just bump all unresolved issues to the next planned version (e.g. Solr 1.3.1 or 1.4 or Lucene 2.4 or 2.9) -1 I doesn't make sense to automatically schedule something to be fixed in the next version of the product. I would be +1 on automatically setting the fix version for the current unreleased version when an issue is resolved as fixed, though. -Mike -- Ken Krugler Krugle, Inc. +1 530-210-6378 If you can't find it, you can't fix it
