[Development] Jira and issues left "In Progress"

[Alex Blasche]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Tor
> Arne Vestbø 
> 	On 1 Nov 2021, at 12:27, David Skoland <david.skoland at qt.io
> <mailto:david.skoland at qt.io> > wrote:
> 
> 
> 		One caveat: Jira has no state for indicating "the work is done
> but not
> 		yet integrated"
> 
> 
> 	This is a good point. We could add a state in Jira called something like
> “Patch submitted” in the In Progress status category. Moreover, it’s even
> possible to automate state change to this whenever a change is submitted in
> Gerrit with either the Fixes or the Task footer.
> 
> 
> There may be many reasons why a task is “In progress” but has not transitioned
> out of that state yet. I do not think we need to model all the intermediate steps
> involved in “in progress”, the JIRA workflow is complicated enough as it is :)

I agree with Tor Arne's sentiment. We support so many teams with slightly different work impediments, we'd end up with many more requests of similar state additions for other reasons than gerrit reviews. The current system matches most requests universally. In this case, a review on gerrit means the task is still in progress 😉

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Alex