Regardless of how we indicate optional vs. required for rel, are there strong opinions on who should set that metadata on tickets? Reporter? Assignee? One person? A group of people?
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:04 AM Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: > FWIW, I don't care what we go with as long as we can differentiate tickets > that are optional for the rel vs. tickets that are blockers and filter the > JIRA board on them so people know where they should focus their effort. > > The rest of it's just paint colors to me. > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:24 AM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> > Alternatively, we could revert to using 4.0.X or 4.X as we once did to >> > indicate something is targeting a release vs. blocking on inclusion for >> it. >> > That seems to be a more "project JIRA hackish idiom", and one that's >> > historically been confusing for people. At least with a label it would >> be >> > clear with a name like "4.0-blocker", and we could then easily filter >> the >> > JIRA board on it. >> > >> >> >> Now that I better understand Benedict's previous response (see the >> 'Dev Cassandra 4.0 Dev Work Status' thread¹), I'm leaning with his view >> for >> now. >> >> I certainly missed the difference on how tickets ended up resolved as >> `4.0-alpha`. That unresolved `4.x` tickets were non-blockers that could >> still go into `4.0-alpha` if they satisfied the feature freeze and met >> someone's itch, while the unresolved `4.0-alpha` tickets were those the >> community declared as blockers. >> >> Putting aside the discussion on what is a blocker, when it is discovered >> to >> be a blocker (and vice versa). My confusion stemmed from the fact there >> was >> no specific alpha|beta versions for tickets to get resolved into, eg >> 4.0-alpha1, 4.0-alpha2, etc. So it wasn't just that the normal `.x` >> nomenclature got changed, but having accurate fix versions was also >> removed. If we added the specific alpha|beta versions then I wouldn't >> consider the approach to be a "hackish idiom" anymore. The 4.0-alpha, >> 4.0-beta and 4.0, versions become purely target versions like the `.x`, >> and >> no resolved ticket is ever assigned them. >> >> The simpler we can make and document this the better. please. >> >> regards, >> Mick >> >> ¹) >> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd06dabeaa10849795d15ee77c1a8c400b034dce005ac2d0b9366567a%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E >> >
