Olaf is complaining about GH-JIRA integration, which is crappy like hell and I
whole-heartedly second this motion. Not a fun of GH however people are using
it. However the way it is polluting the JIRA is beyond crap.

Cos

On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:58PM, Jay Vyas wrote:
> I don't submit much code nowadays, but I do mentor a few students here and
> there who are contributing to BigTop.  For them I think they really enjoy
> the PR process.  
> 
> I do as well... In the past  I have had to do reviews to use things like
> "review board" which require us to diff patches using a website and then
> manually add links to the jira, I think that's even worse.
> 
> So I don't want to make a vote because I think active contributors should
> vote, but that is just my opinion: pull requests are easy and lovely esp for
> complex patches , and esp for onboarding new developers.
> 
> The latter (onboarding new developers) is the most important reason I think.
> 
> > On Mar 5, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Olaf Flebbe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > can we turn off the JIRA integration of  "github pull requests"?
> > 
> > I am fine with using github, from a developer perspective. The tooling on 
> > github itself is very straight forward.
> > 
> > But the integration is a big mess. The workflow to review and commit github 
> > requests for BIGTOP seems clumsy to me.
> > See for instance  BIGTOP-2285: It is very hard to sort out comments from 
> > actual code...
> > 
> > I totally favour a clean patch file documented in JIRA in contrast to an 
> > pull request from an external system with an incomprehensible interface.
> > 
> > Any other opinions?
> > Olaf

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