[WG: Sakai QA] [Building Sakai] JIRA cleanup and stagnant issues

[Speelmon, Lance Day]

Agreed - #1 un-assigning makes sense.  Thanks, L


Lance Speelmon
Scholarly Technologist

On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Stephen Marquard wrote:

> I would suggest option 1.
> 
> But I'd also suggest that the MT not limit its attention to bugs which are unassigned. The MT may regard an issue as higher priority than the person to whom it's assigned or have more information or better ideas on how to resolve it, or the developer could intend to work on an issue but still not find the time.
> 
> So while supporting the cleanup, I'm also proposing that assigned bugs should also be "fair game" for the MT to tackle. Developers who are actively working on an issue can always set the status to In Progress to indicate that.
> 
> Regards
> Stephen 
> 
>>>> Aaron Zeckoski <aaronz at vt.edu> 2/3/2010 7:46 PM >>> 
> The maintenance team (MT) is currently in the process of a JIRA
> cleanup as one of our first major tasks. The goal of this is to
> identify issues that we should focus on and also to make JIRA easier
> to work with and manage going forward. We are currently focusing on
> the SAK space only.
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK
> 
> Part of this process is identifying issues that are currently assigned
> to people which are not being worked on. This may include inactive
> users (not currently working on Sakai) or dead issues (not being
> worked on and no activity in months or years) or well meaning but
> overloaded users.
> 
> We want to ask the community to please help us with this process and
> unassign issues you are not currently working on. Users with a very
> large (25+) number of issues assigned to them have been contacted
> about this already by MT members and many have responded. If you have
> not yet responded please try to do so this week. We would like to get
> stagnant issues into the "unassigned" bucket so they they will be
> reviewed by someone in the MT. If you are working on the issues or
> plan to in the next 60 days please keep them assigned to yourself.
> Issues which are assigned are not reviewed by the MT as the
> implication is that they are being worked on.
> 
> We are trying to decide the best way to handle unresponsive users
> (which may have moved on or no longer be checking email or working on
> the project) and would like community feedback on the best way to
> proceed. Some options are:
> 1) Unassign all issues assigned to unresponsive users early next week
> 2) Leave the issues assigned (this may result in these issues never
> being worked on)
> 3) ??? (your idea here)
> 
> This is not a vote or a proposal. We are just looking for suggestions and ideas.
> Thanks!
> -AZ
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Zeckoski (azeckoski (at) vt.edu)
> Senior Research Engineer - CARET - University of Cambridge
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