[epf-dev] Bugzilla use

[Ricardo Balduino <balduino@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi OpenUP committers,

I was revisiting Bugzilla to do bug
triage after our 0.9 release. After a bit of investigation through the
Bugzilla help and checking with the Composer team, I found we were misusing
the Version field in Bugzilla.
This field if for the version where
you found the bug, not the version where you plan to deliver the fix. Sadly,
we're not going to revisit the 200+ bugs we already dealt with for Release
0.9 :-)

Now, I'd like to throw out some ideas
for a more consistent use of Bugzilla, thus leading us to better assignment
of tasks and status reporting.

For the current 76 bugs in there (status
varying from NEW to VERIFIED) and new to come, the Version field should
be set to 0.9, and the Target Milestone could be set (initially) to 1.0
(which is the next planned OpenUP/Basic release.
We would interpret this as being our
Work Items List: you file a bug (or enhancement) against the current version,
it goes to the list, and it is prioritized/assigned to the current release
(being worked) or future releases.

Then, as we move through the iterations,
this Target Milestone field would show what iteration, in that particular
release, the element is planned for. 
For example, a bug is assigned to :

        -
Target Milestone 1.0.1, 1.0.2, etc. (meaning release 1.0, iteration 1,
2, etc.) OR
        -
Target Milestone 1.0 - I1, 1.0 - I2, etc (I kind of like the first notation
better)

This information would help us to generate
a report showing the Iteration Plan. Unfortunately, I don't see any easy
way to extract burndown information in graphic format as we used to have
in excel sheets, but the source of information is (officially) one, so
no maintenance overhead. To be fair, there may be some ways to show what
has been fixed, resolved, closed in a given period of time, like the report
we have available in the OpenUP downloads area of EPF web site. 

Please, let me know if you have ideas
or comments. If you like it, I volunteer to change these fields in Bugzilla
in the next few days. New additions should then follow this proposition.
Does it sound like a plan?

Cheers,

Ricardo Balduino
Senior Software Engineer

IBM - RUP Team | EPF Committer
www.ibm.com/rational
www.eclipse.org/epf