[hibernate-dev] JIRA issue status - Closed v. Resolved

We seem to have a few different understandings of Closed versus Resolved as a status. We should come to a consensus. According to Atlassian... * Resolved : A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by reporter. From here issues are either reopened, or are closed. * Closed : The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened. For the most part I agree with these definitions. The first thing to notice is that these definitions say (imply) that a Closed issue cannot be reopened. Today, we do allow that. Do we really want to not allow closed issues to be reopened? Partially this relies on a few other decisions... Should all issues that are part of a release be Closed? After an issue has been part of a release, the normal process to do additional work on the issue is to open a new issue. Mainly that is to keep release notes straight. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell this would have to just be a manual release step to transition all Resolved issues to Closed. But I think from a release tracking perspective this is the most correct option. Comments. Today we allow comments on Closed issues. Unfortunately we have to reopen the issue to then delete comments. So if we no longer physically allow Closed issues to be reopened, then IMO we should certainly not allow comments on Closed issues. Which brings us to... do we really want to not allow Closed issues to be reopened? I mean actually remove the transition? Or do we just want to say that as a standard procedure we do not reopen Closed issues? -- steve(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org