I've recently made a few significant changes to the FCREPO Tracker and thought it would be good to share them here. Some of this info will eventually work it's way into the Developer's Wiki, but for now it's a blog post.
Improvements
- Wider Access: The FCREPO Tracker now allows issues to be submitted from anyone in the community. Formerly, we experimented with having a dedicated tracker for community-submitted issues, but decided it'd be best to track everything in one place and improve the issue workflow instead (see below).
- 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 product-specific (e.g. "GSearch 2.2"). This makes sense because each product has it's own release schedule.
- Improved Workflow: Issues now start in the new Recieved Received state, rather than the Open state. The distinction is that Open issues have been validated and determined by the committers to be in-scope. More specifics below.
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Received
All new issues begin in this state. If it's clearly in scope for the project, it will be moved to "Open" by one of the committers. If it's not in scope or is a duplicate, etc, it will closed. If an issue remains in the recieved state for a longer than a couple weeks, it means we think it deserves more discussion before making a determination.
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