This page describes how JIRA should be used in DSpace development. JIRA is the issue tracking system DSpace uses for its development. It shares the same JIRA with other DuraSpace projects. Here is the link directly to the DSpace project in DuraSpace JIRA: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS
JIRA Workflow
We use these statuses for issues with the following meanings:
- Received - ticket just came into the system and is waiting for for review by the commiters
- More Details Needed - ticket is incomplete or too "blue sky". It needs details or more fleshing out before it can even be worked on
- Volunteer Needed - ticket is ready to be worked on, but needs a volunteer to work on it.
- Accepted - ticket has enough details to be worked on & has a volunteer assigned. Work on this ticket will begin soon (if it hasn't begun already).
- Code Review Needed - the assigned developer feels the ticket is complete, but has requested that someone else review the code before the ticket is closed.
- Closed - work on the ticket is complete. There are several "substates" a closed ticket can have:
- Fixed - a fix of this issue has been commited and merged to the appropriate branch
- Ready for Test (not currently used)
- Ready for Release (not currently used)
- Won't fix - the commiters decided not to fix this issue; possible reasons are that it's considered a feature or it would break compatibility
- Duplicate - there has already been filed another issue describing the same (or very similar) problem; we're closing this one and all discussion should continue in the other issue
- Incomplete - we do not have enough information to process this issue; the reporter didn't add the requested details
- Cannot Reproduce - the commiters tried to reproduce the issue in their environment, but it didn't fail in the way reported; therefore they couldn't fix it
- Answered - the issue didn't require any action; it was a question and it was answered
Here's a diagram of how a ticket transitions from one status to the next:
JIRA labels
In addition, we use several labels, which help us list all tickets with a certain label.
- has-patch - the issue has a patch attached addressing this issue
- has-pull-request - the issue links to a GitHub pull request addressing this issue
- changes-config - the code change introduced by this issue also adds, removes or modifies configuration properties
- deprecation - the code change introduced by this issue deprecates some classes or methods
See also