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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