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• If the assignee field is blank then any OFBiz JIRA Contributor can assign themselves to it to work on it.
• If the assignee field is not blank (i.e it already has someone's name in it, then it means that that person is still working on it). In this case then contact the assignee to see if they need a
  

Changing assignees

If you are an Assignee for an issue and you have completed your work then once you have updated the JIRA details or comments, please unassign yourself from the issue. (i.e remove your name from the assignee field). This is important if the work is a patch that needs to be committed. Our Committers will be able to see the unassigned tasks that are available to be picked up, review them and if necessary commit them

If you know have arranged with someone to take over your work on an issue, then when removing your name from the assignee field, you can add the person you have arranged Our Committers will be able to see the unassigned tasks that are available to be picked up, review them and if necessary commit themto take it over.

Component

The component field is used to identify which OFBiz component or application area is affected by the issue, The issue could be across all the applications or it could be restricted to a particular area such as Workeffort, Content, Datamodel or Accounting.

NOTE: Be careful that that details in the Labels field is not being duplicated.

DO AN EXTRACT OF THE LIST OF COMPONENTS WE HAVE

Flags

There are two flags available on a JIRA issue. One flags that the issue is a Patch and the other that the issue is Important.

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JIRA also already provides a 'Priority' field for an issue so the Important flag seems like a duplication of functionality.

DO AN EXTRACT OF THE LIST OF ISSUES USING FLAGS

Status

The status field tracks the current status of an issue from creation to resolution or closure.

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Affect Versions

Fix Versions

DO WE MAKE THIS INTO A FAQ STYLE PAGE???

Creating JIRA Issues

Creating issues in JIRA adds to the project workload so it is important that they are created when needed and with the right level of information that will help someone to pick it up and resolve it as soon as possible.

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