I've recently made a few significant changes to the FCREPO tracker Tracker and thought it would be good to share them here. This information will eventually work it's way into the Developer's Wiki:
- Wider Access: The FCREPO tracker Tracker now allows issues to be submitted from anyone in the community. Formerly, we experimented with having these go to a separate tracker, but this proved confusing.
- Wider Scope: Fedora, GSearch, OAIProvider, and DirIngest are now listed as "Components" within the FCREPO tracker. These are all releasable products within the Fedora Repository Project. As part of this change, I made the JIRA "Versions" for the project more specific. This makes sense because each product has it's own release schedule.
- Improved Workflow: Issues now start in the new "Recieved" state, rather than the Open state. The distinction is that Open issues have been validated and determined by one of the committers to be in-scope. More specifics below.
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Issues in this state are in scope for a future release. The target release may not have been determined yet. Generally higher-priority items will worked on first. The committers will take our best guess on the initial priority of issues, but the priority may be increased or decreased based on input we receive (votes, comments) from the community.
In Progress
This state means a developer is currently working on the issue. Small issues will usually bypass the review step and be Closed (and resolved as "Fixed") once the changes are committed to trunk and pass automated tests. Larger issues will be moved to the "In Review" state at the discretion of the developer.
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