JIRA contains the entire project history, but as the project has matured our use of JIRA has not kept up. This page proposes some changes to the structure of our JIRA project, to capture more information, simplify the data entry and nudge people towards more complete and accurate data entry. This will better allow us to measure release quality over time and identify when Cassandra is ready for (or due a) release.
Summary
- Removal of ...Issues issues types: Wish and Test
- Fields
- Removed: Labels, Reviewer, Environment, Reproduced In, Docs Text, Due Date, Epic Link, External Issue Id, External Issue URL, Flags, Sprint, Time Tracking
- Modified: Priority, Component
- Added: Complexity, Severity, Bug Category, Feature Category, Discovered By, Feature, Impacts, Test and Documentation Plan, Platform
- Workflow
- New States: Triage, Review in Progress, Change Requested
- Transitions with required fields
- Order of field display changed
Removals
To simplify the maintenance of JIRA, it would help to remove any unnecessary concepts. Mostly these are concepts we do not use in practice, except very spottily (so as to make them useless).
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