Link common tasks between different projects

[mleonard87]

I am currently starting two projects in parallel for a client, they are both bespoke case management web applications and several components are likely to be shared by each.

We will be using JIRA for task management and have created two projects (one for each) and have grouped them together into the same project category. This way we can easily query tasks overall and tasks per project.

However, when it comes to these common components what is likely to be the best way to manage it? Or how have people managed it in the past? Raising the task in one project is not ideal as it relates to both, but then raising the task in both projects leads to duplication of tasks. Would creating tasks in both projects and linking them be the best approach?

Any feedback or advice would be welcome.

Thanks, Mike

[Dieter]

Have you thought of creating a dedicated third project for the common components? This would also enable you to have your own versioning of the common components which might be a library like the Apache commons-* tools. Bugs or features in your two web application projects could link to the commons project.