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Raju Bitter | 24 Jul 2012 14:33

JIRA issue assignment and unanswered technical questions in the dev mailing list

When I create JIRAs, they are assigned to committers who are not
active any more (e.g. Tucker, Henry, or Max). Why doesn't Amy
configure JIRA to automatically assign all JIRAs to her, and then she
can take care of assigning the issues to the correct person.

What is your strategy for dealing with the many unanswered questions
on the dev mailing list, regarding implementation details? It makes it
very difficult to contribute to the platform, if questions regarding
the implementation details needed to fix bugs are left unanswered?
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Amy Muntz | 24 Jul 2012 18:43

Re: JIRA issue assignment and unanswered technical questions in the dev mailing list

Hi Raju,

Thanks for the suggestion regarding JIRA. I could configure JIRA to assign all JIRAs to me, but I am still considering the desired behavior. Even though committers may no longer be active, many of them still answer questions now and then so I don't want to lose those insights.

As for unanswered questions on the mailing lists, I would point people to the wiki to review historical docs, JIRA (as often old bugs have lots of details about the implementation), the code comments, and the forums (perhaps someone out there has information). The thing about open source is that it is supported by the contributors and as such, contributors come and go so the original author isn't always available.

Amy

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Raju Bitter <r.bitter.mailinglists <at> googlemail.com> wrote:
When I create JIRAs, they are assigned to committers who are not
active any more (e.g. Tucker, Henry, or Max). Why doesn't Amy
configure JIRA to automatically assign all JIRAs to her, and then she
can take care of assigning the issues to the correct person.

What is your strategy for dealing with the many unanswered questions
on the dev mailing list, regarding implementation details? It makes it
very difficult to contribute to the platform, if questions regarding
the implementation details needed to fix bugs are left unanswered?

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