[Development] Closing issues automatically with new keyword

[Robert Löhning]

Am 22.08.2018 um 10:53 schrieb Frederik Gladhorn:
> Quick status update from my side:
> I have the script running against a test installation of JIRA. It seems to 
> work, there are some small issues to be worked out still.
> 
> - Qt Creator version numbers are verbose, so I need to be more generous in 
> matching strings, right now I don't detect the version number correctly there. 
> This one I will fix, it's just going to take a few minutes.
> 
> - Qt 3D Studio seems to be a mess, it has 5.x branches but the JIRA versions 
> are 2.x, I consider this a won't fix.
> 
> I'd love if people started using "Fixes:", it will work retro-actively. And if 
> you manually close a task in the meantime, no harm is done.

Looks like somebody should tell the sanity bot:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/238280/1//COMMIT_MSG

Cheers,
Robert

> 
> Multiple fix versions:
> There were some doubts about which fix versions would be set, for example 
> during the down-merge. This actually turns out to work quite nicely:
> If a change ends up in dev, the script will detect that it will end up in 
> 5.13.0 right now and sets that as fix version. If the downmerge happens, the 
> script will see the change again in 5.12.0 and add that fix version. In my 
> opinion there is no major harm.
> If the change is then cherry-picked to 5.9.7, it will also add that fix 
> version.
> 
> This also means that changes going into 5.11.4 will be marked as fixed in 
> 5.12.1 or whatever is applicable branch/version wise. So we will actually set 
> fix versions nicely.
> 
> There are some fixes in JIRA that would be easy to make, assuming there is 
> agreement. Since I have to use some heuristics, I decided to only ever look at 
> full version numbers, including patch level releases.
> Currently we have version numbers in JIRA which do not make much sense to me, 
> since they will never be released, such as 6.0, 5.12 and a few more. I would 
> propose we always use the full version, so 6.0.0 and 5.12.0.
> If the script finds 5.13 but not 5.13.0 it will not set any fix version.
> 
> I'm unsure where the whole thing should live, currently it's internal to The 
> Qt Company, I'd love to publish it somewhere (it's a bunch of python files).
> 
> Cheers,
> Frederik
> 
> 
> 
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