The following page is based on a discussion in May 2020 and more importantly another discussion in March 2021, the community agreed on the following definitions for the fields in the FLINK Jira project.

Goals

• clearer communication and expectation management with the community
• a user or contributor should be able to judge the urgency of a ticket by its priority
• if a ticket is assigned to someone the expectation that someone is working on it should hold
• generally reduce noise in Jira
• reduce overhead of committers to ask about status updates of contributions or bug reports
• “Are you still working on this?”
• “Are you still interested in this?”
• “Does this still happen on Flink 1.x?”
• “Are you still experiencing this issue?”
• “What is the status of the implementation”?
• while still encouraging users to add new tickets and to leave feedback about existing tickets

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