JIRA Releases take on the min start date, and max end date of the stories which are part

Question

I have begun scheduling releases, and have had trouble setting the start and end date.

It is not a timezone issue, and today I realised it was setting the start of the release to be equal to the earliest start date for a story which has been marked as part of the release. Similarly, the end date does not extend past the furthest end date, for our set of stories.

I am curious, why does the release not respect the har constraints of the start and end time I supplied?

Is there any way to prevent the release from absorbing these dates from the stories? It seems strange that I cannot have a story I started 6 weeks ago, then out on hold, and now made part of a new release, without it affecting the date range of the release.

If I simply bulk update every story i the sprint to have the start of the sprint as the start date, will I affect other reporting?

Is there any real need for start and end date on stories if you are using points? Can I remove these fields from being active?

Sandy Agafonoff · Answer

It turned out to be an add-on called BigPicture imposing its own custom fields, including start date and end date, and some how, the release was picking up the dates it applied.

To fix it, I removed the project from the scope of the BigPicture program manager and releases can be created as per normal.

Troy Spetz_46oct3 · Answer

We use JIRA 7.11 server version.

We set the start and end date of the FixVersion. The start date is used by the Version Report.

Issues are completed within 2-week sprints -- without using start/end dates on each issue.

Doing this, does not modify or interfere with the release start/end dates.

More information here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/managing-versions-938847201.html