Hello Randall, I have not looked to deeply into this post yet (time!!) but from the outline I think it might be very helpful. http://olamy.blogspot.com/2011/11/from-pull-request-to-jira-issue.html
@olamy is an ASF fellow too basically this is a maven plugin which creates a patch an attaches it to Jira: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-patch-tracker-plugin/ Command is like: mvn patch-tracker:create Probably we should consider this for the git workflow Cheers Christian On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Randall Leeds <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Devs. > > I just finished talking with dch a bit about our latest perspective on > raising contribution workflow to the next level in light of the git > migration and the documentation discussion. > > Here's a summary of my observations: > > * Having documentation in the source raises the problem that, while > the wiki was open to any contributors, the source is not directly > accessible or commit by non-committers. We need to make sure that when > we move that direction we keep the barrier to entry low for > documentation contributions. > > * Working with git affords us a special opportunity to try to lower > the barrier on community contributions in general. > > In thinking about the role of JIRA going forward, I'm left with the > following observations: > > * JIRA is not leaving the ASF (deeply embedded in existing project > workflows, good svn integration, etc) > > * JIRA is actually quite good at what it does well (tracking issues). > I even would say I like it (and maybe prefer it to Github's issues) > > * Having both Github Enterprise and JIRA fragments the contribution > landscape. This has been my experience in practice at an organization > which uses both. > > * Therefore, we should learn to work in harmony with JIRA, and figure > out how best to get it into our git workflow. > > *** Please help me improve the JIRA / Git integration situation *** > > I've started a page at https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/GitJiraIntegration. > > -Randall -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
