RE: [chairs] OASIS Issues Tracking System

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

Hi Rob,

  The ODF Requirements Subcommittee was indeed the other TC intended for
beta :-) While there is one project per TC, "Components" are used to
identify related items - such as a particular release, a different spec, ODF
Next Requirements, ODF 1.0 Errata Review, ODF 1.2 Public Review, etc. 

  As far as "refer" goes, I think you could move the project from the
general queue to a particular component, but I'll see what I can find for
other examples - please forward any and all suggestions!

  I'm going to see what I can find for requirements workflows - but it seems
someone at IBM/Rational should already have this worked out ;-)

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 4:57 AM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Cc: office@lists.oasis-open.org; office-requirements@lists.oasis-
> open.org
> Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS Issues Tracking System
> 
> Hi Mary,
> 
> Thanks for the great new!
> 
> I'd like to volunteer the ODF TC's ODF Requirements SC's aid in helping
> you define a requirements workflow.  This SC would be a good candidate
> for
> a beta site of requirements tracking as well.
> 
> Also, looking at the beta issues tracking workflow, I see that you do
> not
> have a "refer" state.  As we track comments from the public list, we
> find
> some that are pertinent to a subcommittees, work such as spreadsheet
> formulas or accessibility.  When such issues come up on the TC call, we
> refer/transfer/assign them to the SC to propose a resolution.  Is there
> any way to capture that intent in a JIRA workflow?   At first I thought
> we
> could just assign the issue to the chair of the SC, but that is
> ambiguous,
> since some members are members of multiple SC's.
> 
> Similarly, is there a concept of multiple "projects"?  For example, if
> we
> have a call for comments on ODF Next requirements, simultaneously with
> an
> ODF Errata review, concurrent with an ODF 1.2 public review, is there a
> way to keep track of issues/comments in a way that keeps these
> distinict?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
> 
> From:
> "Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
> To:
> <chairs@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Date:
> 11/17/2008 12:21 AM
> Subject:
> [chairs] OASIS Issues Tracking System
> 
> 
> 
> I am thrilled to announce that the OASIS IT team, in an effort to
> continue
> to add to the suite of tools available to our Technical Committees, has
> now installed an Issues Tracking system. Thanks to Atlassian, OASIS has
> been granted an Enterprise JIRA license at no cost. You can access the
> system here:
> http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/
> 
> The first ?project? (equivalent to a Technical Committee) has just been
> rolled out with one more in queue. These two projects will be our beta
> testers. if you would like a project created for your Technical
> Committee
> please send me an email; if all goes well I will start creating
> additional
> Projects (upon request) the first week in December. All Projects and
> their
> associated issues are publicly visible (read only). TC Members have
> read/write access. For the recommended procedure on creating and
> tracking
> issues please see the help page below.
> 
> While the Issue Tracking system is fully supported, it is a standalone
> application ? that is, there is no integration with the Kavi system for
> user authentication. This information must be managed manually. Similar
> to
> Kavi, a user need only be entered once and can be granted (write)
> access
> to multiple Projects.
> 
> The help page from the OASIS TC Handbook can be found here (which also
> contains links to the online JIRA documentation):
> http://docs.oasis-
> open.org/templates/TCHandbook/content/tcoperations/issuestracking.htm
> 
> 
> There is currently only one workflow ? for issues tracking; I?m
> planning
> on creating a second workflow for requirements tracking. As always,
> feedback and suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Mary
> 
> ___________________________________________________________
> Mary P McRae
> Director, Technical Committee Administration
> OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
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