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JIRA: please do not close issues without setting a resolution first

  • 1.  JIRA: please do not close issues without setting a resolution first

    Posted 07-17-2009 17:33
    Dear JIRA editors,
    
    Please do not close issues that have no resolution set, resolve them
    first selecting one of the available resolutions, be it "Won't fix" or
    "Invalid" or "No Action".
    
    Reason is that closed but unresolved issues still appear in the personal
    lists of assigned and even open (yes) issues, though not in the global
    Closed list. It appears that one can change that only by reopening the
    issue, set a resolution and close it again.
    
    If there's another way I would be delighted to know..
    
    Thanks
      Eike
    
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  • 2.  Re: [office] JIRA: please do not close issues without setting a resolutionfirst

    Posted 07-17-2009 18:41
    Eike Rathke 


  • 3.  Re: [office] JIRA: please do not close issues without setting aresolution first

    Posted 07-20-2009 12:46
    Hi Robert,
    
    On Friday, 2009-07-17 14:42:51 -0400, Robert Weir wrote:
    
    > For open issues, I'd agree.  But we said that we would only open JIRA 
    > issues that were genuine issues.  So a "New" JIRA issue that is found to 
    > be a duplicate, or a discussion chatter, etc., goes directly from New to 
    > Close states.  There are several hundred more like that, and I don't think 
    > I want to go through the extra steps of opening taking each one through 
    > the Open and Resolve state changes.
    
    Ah, you can't set a resolution on a New but not Opened issue ... well,
    be it.
    
    > That would generate a lot of useless traffic to the list as well.
    
    IMHO the tracker mails should go to a different list anyway. In the
    meantime I filter all issue tracker mails to a different folder to be
    able to read this list ... poor folks who want to skim the archive.
    
    > > Reason is that closed but unresolved issues still appear in the personal
    > > lists of assigned and even open (yes) issues, though not in the global
    > > Closed list. It appears that one can change that only by reopening the
    > > issue, set a resolution and close it again.
    > >
    > 
    > Hmmm... I see that the Closed issues still remain assigned to a person. 
    > But that is OK, right?
    
    Sure, that's fine.
    
    > It just indicates the last person who owned the 
    > issue.  You could define a new filter that looks for only ones assigned to 
    > you in the New or Open states.
    
    Of course I already created a "my Actives" filter ;-)
    
    > The default filter for the front page, when you click on a TC member's 
    > name shows all issues, regardless of Status, where the Resolution is 
    > "unresolved".
    
    That's "just" ugly and makes that link useless, but what bothers me is
    that they also show up in my "Assigned Open Issues", I could live with
    that, but they also show up in
    http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE under "Open Issues"
    (not the "Project Summary" Open), see Trivial issues for example, which
    leaves a completely wrecked impression.
    
    
    > > If there's another way I would be delighted to know..
    > > 
    > 
    > Unfortunately, when I go directly from, New to Close state, JIRA does not 
    > allow me to set a resolution of any kind.  So the issue remains 
    > "unresolved", even though status is "Closed".  This is unfortunately.
    
    I'd call it a bug in JIRA's work flow not being able to set a resolution
    when closing a non-open issue (I find it silly that a new issue isn't
    open anyway, but ...)
    
    
    > One thing we can do, once we catch up on the comments, is filter to show 
    > only Closed/Unresolved issues and then issue a bulk operation to reopen 
    > the issues, then open them, then resolve then, then close them  We have 
    > 852 currently in the Closed/Unresolved state, so that would result in 3408 
    > emails to the list.   That's not good, but this could be done some 
    > weekend.  But it might be easier to simply redefine the filters on the 
    > project's home page.
    
    If that's possible it would be best.
    
      Eike
    
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