[xwiki-dev] [Proposal] Issue Driven Development (IDD)

[Vincent Massol]

On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:

>
> Great.. this is what we need.. Can we have this on xwiki.org ?

Done: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentProcess

-Vincent
>
> Ludovic
>
> Vincent Massol a écrit :
> > Hi XWiki committers,
> >
> > I'd like to suggest one good practice when developing with JIRA:  
> whenever
> > someone commits something to SVN he/she has to put the reference  
> to the JIRA
> > issue # in the commit message. Of course this shouldn't be done  
> for any
> > trivial things like adding a small javadoc, renaming a single  
> variable,
> > cosmetic changes, svn ignore, etc.
> >
> > The strategy goes like this:
> >
> > * When you plan to work on something, create a jira issue and  
> assign it to
> > yourself
> > * Implement it
> > * Commit it with the jira issue #
> > * Close the jira issue
> >
> > Another acceptable variation is:
> >
> > * Implement something
> > * When you want to commit it you realize you don't have any jira  
> issue to
> > put in the commit message so don't commit
> > * Create the jira issue
> > * Commit
> >
> > The rationale behind this:
> >
> > * One consistent way to manage our work (this is different from  
> now where
> > sometimes it's in jira and sometimes it's not). It also means  
> there's no
> > unaccounted work, meaning I can go to jira and query it and I'll  
> see what
> > everyone has been working on.
> > * Automated release notes/change logs. When we release a version  
> we can
> > simply do a jira extract and it'll give the full change log of what
> > happened. This is really important for our users to see what has  
> been done
> > when in XWiki.
> > * Tracability. When you use the jira issue # in your commit, the  
> jira
> > subversion plugin can show the modified files directly from jira.  
> This is
> > quite useful later on, when someone is looking at a jira issue  
> and wants to
> > see what was modified. In addition fisheye is also integrated  
> with jira and
> > when you browse the source repository you can see the jira issue  
> associated
> > with files.
> >
> > I'm proposing that we adopt this practice in XWiki.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
> > PS: Some time back I blogged about 6 jira issue smells. This was  
> one of
> > them. Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/yzv4bf
>

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