I would like to be able to represent a fix as a separately tracked item that may be linked to one or more issues.
For instance, I might have 3 bugs tracked as issues, but I want them all to be linked to a single fix. The fix will track the status of the development (for instance, currently under development, undergoing code review, released), whereas each issue represents the status of the bug (for instance, open issue, fixed).
Keeping the two ideas separate helps to capture the concept of a fix and being distinct from the issues that it is fixing, which can be different. For instance, a fix might have its own history of going through the development process and will stay closed once released, whereas one of the bugs it fixed might unwittingly be opened up again in the future by another developer's changes. It also helps in situations where you might have conceptually different bugs that can be fixed by the same code change.
I looked into perhaps making the fix its own issue type, so as to track the status separately, but then the problem becomes how to describe the links. None of the link types (blocks, clones, duplicates, causes, relates) adequately describe the relationship, though if there is no better option, I could just go with "relates" and look to the issue types being linked to infer the rest of the meaning.
I also considered making each fix an epic, since you can link issues to them, but after some reading, it seems that this concept is probably overkill and too much ceremony for what I'm trying to represent.
Any suggestions on what the "right way" to represent this in JIRA is? Thanks.
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