As per thread below with Animesh, we would like to resurrect the issue. As per my conversation with Chip, the issue for not letting component maintainers - get assignments by default - was because we wanted to maintain a balance of "getting things done" vs "letting community grow"
Question to JIRA experienced admins, we can preserve "assign to me" option, and if unassigned goto "component" maintainer? > -----Original Message----- > From: Animesh Chaturvedi [mailto:animesh.chaturv...@citrix.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 6:48 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Components in JIRA and bug assignment > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Musayev, Ilya [mailto:imusa...@webmd.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 3:15 PM > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Components in JIRA and bug assignment > > > > I would like to separate this thread on tickets assignments in JIRA. > > > > Previously it was mentioned that we can add additional components into > > JIRA CLOUDSTACK project and have ticket default to maintainer of the > > component - who can then assign it to a proper developer. > > > [Animesh>] Yes JIRA allows adding a component lead. I can add components > and the primary lead if the community agrees to it. This will be based on our > maintainers list [1] > > > What do you think? > [Animesh>]+1, I had brought up the same idea in the thread [2] and that > time it was not approved by the community. With my experience from 4.2.0 I > would like it to be reconsidered. > > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > [Animesh>] In the thread [3] I had also called out the email subscriptions for > each of the components based on JIRA filter, but at that time I did not get > much response. > > > If agreed, who has the karma in JIRA to do this? > [Animesh>] There are few folks that have Admin access to JIRA including me. > Alex, David, Chip are ofcourse administrators. > > > > What components we need to add or remove to lower the confusion? > [Animesh>] We should review the current component list and refine them. > Some of them are over used like "management Server" as Sheng mentioned > in the other thread. > > > > Last but not least, if someone can explain how bug reporter would > > identify the proper component, we can then post it on WIKI and > > minimize the error rate caused by improper bug filling. > [Animesh>] We can add a description column in [1] to provide description for > the components. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Current+Maintai > ners+Per+Component > [2] http://markmail.org/thread/btovj6t6opqxge5q > [3] http://markmail.org/thread/2gm4lq3lgfdzeo53 >
