Talk:Bug triage

Requesting input from other developers

Sometimes it's hard to know when somebody has been added as watcher in order to require input from him/her. That's because own watches aren't different at all from "request watches" from other developers.

IMO it could be really interesting to have one new field, possibly only for developers and testers, in order to request input from other moodlers. That way, we could have one simple filter, call it, "Bugs I've been requested to input about". By taking a quick look to that list daily I think we could improve the decision process in a nice way.

Commented with Martin and agreed about to suggest it here. Thanks! Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 10:51, 31 March 2008 (CDT)

Eloy, I like your idea, however I don't know a way of creating a field for developers and testers only. (I wish fields like QA assignee and difficulty could be removed from the create issue form to make the form shorter.) Perhaps we could implement your idea by reassigning the issue to someone when you want their input and adding a comment like 'Reassigning to Helen for her input on whether more documentation is needed. Please reassign back to me afterwards.' --Helen Foster 13:02, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, temporal reassigning could be a solution, but main problem is that the original assignee can lost the track of the issue easily (if forgets to add him/her-self as watcher or so). Also, that won't solve the problem of searching for those bugs (based in one "free-content" string, any typo or change in the entered text will cause the issue to not appear in the list of "Requesting my opinion". Those are the reason about to have one specialised field for easier searching. About the fields... I haven't tested that... but... aren't the QA and difficulty fields only available (for input) to some groups within Jira? Do a simple Jira user have those fields available when creating new issues? I hope no. Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 13:58, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Edited: Crap! I just created a new user in Jira and, when creating new issues, the QA and difficulty fields are available :-( Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 13:58, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Edited 2: Seems to be an old JIRA limit: http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-4616 (hackable, see last comment, but I wouldn't recommend it). Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 14:13, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, the only field which is not available to an ordinary Jira user is the assignee field. --Helen Foster 14:09, 3 September 2009 (UTC)