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

Here are some additional tips to qualify my post below: * In you want to know whether you should create a jira issue or not ask yourself the question: "is my change going to affect any user or any plugin developer"? If the answer is yes then you must create a jira issue * You shouldn't create a bug issue for a new feature that you or someone else has implemented in the current version under

Whatever fix you do must be against the existing JIRA issue for that

The idea here is that the changelog must be as meaningful as

Thanks -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Vincent Massol [mailto:vincent@massol.net] > Sent: mardi 14 novembre 2006 09:03 > To: 'xwiki-dev(a)objectweb.org' > Subject: [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

> 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

> been done when in XWiki. > * Tracability. When you use the jira issue # in your commit, the

> 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

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