[opensource-dev] jira patch name convention

[Aleric Inglewood]

Hi all,

the jira makes no difference between Snowglobe 1.4 and Snowglobe 2.1, the
two most active development branches
at the moment. While many jira entries are specifically about one or the
other, some things apply to both.
There are two ways to deal with this: either create a new jira for the same
thing, so we have two jira
entries about the same thing, one for patches related to 1.x and one for
patches related to 2.x.
However, that is not always feasible. The second option is to use one jira
for both and just attach
patches (if they differ) for both branches to the same jira.

For that latter case I propose to use the following convention:

Patches that are for 1.x should start with SNOW1-123_description.diff
Patches that are for 2.x should start with SNOW2-123_description.diff

Leaving out the version would mean it applies in general. Ie,
SNOW-123_description.diff
should apply to 1.x and/or 2.x (depending on what the jira is about).
If there is a patch that is specifically for SG 2.0, and the patch for 2.1
has to look different, you can call it SNOW20-123_description.diff, etc.

Aleric
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