[Development] Proposal: more Jira states to track stages of the work on an issue

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 17 February 2020 01:20:43 PST Alexandru Croitor wrote:
> Last time I brought this up, I was told that it would complicated the states
> / transitions, and was deemed won't fix.
> 
> I hope you have more luck.

I'm with Alexandru here: all ideas to have more states in JIRA start with a 
good intentions, but eventually people stop using them and just transition 
through all stages in one go when they've finished the work. For example, 
people realise they've never changed from Reported to Confirmed before they 
actually submitted the fix and autotest to Gerrit. I often do that and the 
task goes from Reported to Confirmed to In Progress in 5 seconds. With your 
proposal, it would go through yet another state in that period.

In all projects I know, the fewer state transitions, the better.

What's the harm in leaving the task in In Progress state while it's being 
reviewed?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products