+1
> On 02 Nov 2014, at 19:52 , Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I just stumbled over a sentence in Fauxton's contributing.md (
> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
> which made me curious:
>
> (instructions to create a branch with the ticket-id in front of it):
>
> followed by a: "If there is no Jira ticket for the issue you have, please
> create one."
>
> I would like to remove that sentence for several reasons:
>
> - Summed up over a year it takes a lot of time to find each extra for a PR
> created Jira ticket and close it, often people forget to close the ticket
> after the PR is merged (or do not have the karma for it?).
>
> - Another reason for removing this rule is that we do not act to this rule
> in the project - the theory differs a lot from the practical day-to-day
> business we are living.
>
> - It also raises the entry barrier for folks which just want to fix a small
> bug they found, but have to register an account on Jira first, then verify
> their email, find out how to create a bug on Jira and then write it and
> just after that are able to submit a patch for a bug which is probably my
> main reason I would like to remove this advice.
>
> I opened a PR on https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/125 which
> will be open until next week wednesday. There is no need to reply if you
> are happy with this change.
>
> Best,
>
> Robert
