[Proposal] Issue Driven Development (IDD)

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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail r�invente le mail ! D�couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface r�volutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com