[opensource-dev] Snowstorm, JIRA and versions

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

  On 2010-08-17 20:00, Philippe (Merov) Bossut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at my backlog of SNOW bugs and I'm really missing right 
> now a "Snowstorm x.x" version in the "Fixed revision(s)" field. 
> Especially after this afternoon meeting where everyone agreed to work 
> off Snowstorm only and let SG2.x dies. For instance, there a JIRA 
> issue (http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-646) that we discussed 
> with WolfPup on IRC that would be great to add to the Snowstorm backlog.
>
> Anyway, it's easy enough to add but we need to agree on what to add 
> and a couple of other things:
> * SNOW product: I think I read somewhere that we will be using VWR and 
> not SNOW for Snowstorm bugs. Correct? (I'm fine with it... just asking 
> for clarification...). If correct, I'll start moving JIRAs from SNOW 
> to VWR when I see fit.

That's correct.

> * Affect versions: either way, how do we identify versions now? For 
> instance, issues in the current lindenlab/viewer-development repo 
> should be marked as what? I suppose "Viewer 2.1.1"...

good question... Esbee is owns version numbering, I suspect we should 
change to either 2.1.2 or 2.2.0 but let's let her weigh in.

> * Fixed versions: this is trickier, as we're moving with a bi monthly 
> release schedule, we're going to increment that number quite fast. 
> Again, fine with me but we need to create "Viewer 2.1.2" and a couple 
> of others as well as a "Viewer 2.x" to park issues that are not on the 
> backlog at all.

Well, if I'm not mistaken, viewers built from the viewer-development 
branch will also have the _DEVELOPMENT at the end of the version string 
- do we really need to increment any of the first three until they go to 
Beta and Release?