> -----Original Message----- > From: Animesh Chaturvedi [mailto:animesh.chaturv...@citrix.com] > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 6:32 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Using "In Progress" status in JIRA > > Folks > > It seems that we do not use "In Progress" status in JIRA as often as we > should. Issues seem to change from "Open" to "Resolved" directly. IMHO > marking an issue "In Progress" provides much better visibility and helps > communicate to community that you are working on that item. >
Isn't assigning a bug would also mean the same? The 'In Progress' is useful when bugs are triaged on a daily basis, most probably towards end of a release cycle. > If for whatever reason you stop working on that item and will not attend to it > you can always mark it back as "Open". > If someone has stopped working on a bug simply unassign so that anyone else can pick it up. > For 4.2 I see that 40 features/ improvement tickets changed from "Open" to > "Resolved" directly. And for Bugs "509" bugs moved from "Open" to > "Resolved" directly. > I don't see any issues in that. > > Thanks > Animesh