Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-12 Thread Patrick Wendell
In Spark we sometimes close issues as something other than "Fixed", and this is an important part of maintaining our JIRA. The current resolution types we use are the following: Won't Fix - bug fix or (more often) feature we don't want to add Invalid - issue is underspecified or not appropriate f

Re: Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-12 Thread Sean Owen
I tend to find that any large project has a lot of walking dead JIRAs, and pretending they are simply Open causes problems. Any state is better for these, so I favor this. The possible objection is that this will squash or hide useful issues, but in practice we have the opposite problem. Resolved

Re: Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-12 Thread Nicholas Chammas
I tend to find that any large project has a lot of walking dead JIRAs, and pretending they are simply Open causes problems. Any state is better for these, so I favor this. Agreed. 1. Inactive: A way to clear out inactive/dead JIRA’s without indicating a decision has been made one way or th

Re: Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-15 Thread Patrick Wendell
If there is no further feedback on this I will ask ASF Infra to add the new fields "Out of Scope" and "Inactive". - Patrick On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Nicholas Chammas wrote: > I tend to find that any large project has a lot of walking dead JIRAs, and > pretending they are simply Open caus

Re: Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-21 Thread Santiago Mola
2015-05-12 9:50 GMT+02:00 Patrick Wendell : > > Inactive - A feature or bug that has had no activity from users or > developers in a long time > Why is this needed? Every JIRA listing can be sorted by activity. That gets the inactive ones out of your view quickly. I do not see any reason why an i

Re: Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-21 Thread Santiago Mola
Some examples to illustrate my point. A couple of issues from the oldest open issues in the SQL component: [SQL] spark-sql exits while encountered an error https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4572 This is an incomplete report that nobody can take action on. It can be resolved as "Incomplet

Re: Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-21 Thread Sean Owen
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Santiago Mola wrote: >> Inactive - A feature or bug that has had no activity from users or >> developers in a long time > > Why is this needed? Every JIRA listing can be sorted by activity. That gets > the inactive ones out of your view quickly. I do not see any re

Re: Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-21 Thread Santiago Mola
2015-05-21 22:39 GMT+02:00 Sean Owen : > > I don't think sorting helps or that browsing is the issue. What if > you're searching for Open Critical issues concerning Pyspark? If the > list is full of issues that are actually out of scope, later, won't > fix, then that's a problem. Sure. That is why

Re: Adding/Using More Resolution Types on JIRA

2015-05-21 Thread Sean Owen
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Santiago Mola wrote: > Sure. That is why I was talking about the Inactive resolution specifically. > The > combination of Priority + other statuses are enough to solve these issues. A > minor/trivial issue that is incomplete is probably not going to hurt much to