I'll add more info on these in our HowToContribute wiki.
On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote:
Hi all,
For Hadoop core, I just added 3 new fields in jira. The first
are flags, for when a jira's patch has been +1'ed and the second is
for when it introduces an incompatible change. The other is the
release note field. If you have a new feature or incompatible
change, the patch developer should fill in the information for the
user with respect to the change.
Thanks,
Owen
PS. If HBase wants the fields too, let me know...