Zero-Comment Closures by Project(5.2.5)

A zero-comment closure is an issue moved into a delivered status with no comment anywhere in its recorded Jira history, by anyone. That is an observation about the Jira record, not about the work: a review may have happened in a pull request, a meeting or another tool, and a comment on its own does not show that a review happened either. The count gives a reviewer a starting point: the closures whose discussion, if there was one, is not in Jira.

This visual shows, for each project, the delivered closures with no recorded comment next to those with at least one, so you can see where closures without a recorded comment concentrate.

What you can conclude

• A project above MetaFrazo's 15% reference level closed more than 15% of its delivered work with no recorded comment. A reviewer could ask where the review of that work is recorded, and whether it is the kind of work the team expects to close without discussion.
• Comparing zero-comment rates across projects shows whether closures without a recorded comment concentrate in a few projects or appear across the portfolio.
• A falling zero-comment rate means more delivered closures carry at least one recorded comment; it shows that a discussion was recorded, not what it concluded.

How this chart works

Stacked bar chart showing zero-comment closures versus comment-present closures per project, over delivered closures only: closures into abandoned-classified statuses are backlog hygiene and are not counted. Projects are ordered by their number of delivered closures. The date range selects the issues first delivered inside it: each issue is counted once per project, on the day (UTC) it first entered a delivered status in that project, so an issue reopened and closed again keeps its first closure date and is not counted in a range that holds only its later closure; an issue moved between projects counts in each project it was delivered in, and each of those rows counts only the comments recorded while the issue was in that project. A comment counts wherever it falls in the issue's recorded history, before the range starts or after it ends, so a recent closure can still move from zero-comment to commented when a comment is added later. MetaFrazo's 15% reference level is named in the caption under the chart; the chart draws no line for it. Use the date and project filters to focus on specific periods.