Dealing with previous semester Issues¶

Previous student teams may have left the Gantt chart and issue list in disarray (or even a total mess).
One of the first things a new team can do to get up to speed on the state of the project is to understand what work (issues) still needs to be done, and what can be discarded.
There is NEVER a one-size-fits-all answer to this question. Rather every issue needs to be looked at and dealt with appropriately.

Step 1 - Determine completion¶

Find out if the issue was completed or not. This can be done by the group checking the existing product, by asking someone from that semester or the Project/Chief engineers if the issue was completed.

• If completed: Edit the issue to change the Status to Closed
• If not complete: Move on to Step 2.

Step 2 - Determine relevance¶

Decide if the issue is relevant or not.

• If not relevant to current or future semesters: Change status to Closed.
• If not relevant to current semester but may be to future: Change Assignee to no one (If needed) and change Target Version to "Unscheduled".
• If relevant to current semester: Assign issue to someone on the team and change the Target Version and Category to appropriate current semester title.

Note: Any time an issue is updated always give a brief explanation for the update as a comment.

The Gantt chart by default shows Open issues only. So changing status to Closed or Assigned/Working will automagically clear out old work off the Gantt chart.