+1 On 3 November 2014 11:51, Klaus Trainer <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 > > Great suggestion. > > > On 02.11.2014 19:52, Robert Kowalski 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 > > > > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
