[opensource-dev] [META] User stories and issue tracker readability

[WolfPup Lowenhar]

To my understanding here is the following:

1.     The main jiras (VWR, WEB, SVC) are for general issues basically no
user story.

2.     When they get pulled to a particular teams jira ( STORM, DN, MESH )
they then get converted to a 'story' with sub tasks relating to that 'story'

 

This is my twp cents worth on this.

 

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Gupte
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 12:01 PM
To: Second Life Open Source Developer Mailing List
Subject: [opensource-dev] [META] User stories and issue tracker readability

 

As a user of the Second Life issue tracker (jira) who often sorts or
searches through others' issues, I'd like people creating or editing issues
to place the (sometimes lengthy) user stories into the Description field,
not the Summary field. The summary should be as short as possible while
still conveying what the issue is about. The role for whom the issue matters
(i.e. "As a ..., I ...") and the specifics of the motivation / reason for
the issue are important when examining a single issue, but aren't too
helpful when looking for duplicates of other issues or when searching for
already existing issues of a wish or problem you have.

Even worse, because the space for displaying the summary is very limited in
some of the greenhopper views, you often only see the "As a ..." part while
the rest gets cut off, so you can't tell at one glance what an issue being
discussed is about at all.

Think of an issue as a little book. The story you want to tell belongs to
the inside (the description). On the cover (summary), you want the story's
title (catchy and ideally different from the title of other books), not the
first chapter.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Boroondas

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