I agree, and am disappointed it may make it slightly harder for contributors to get involved. They'll have to email instead of use the self service issue tracking services. The lockdown is supposed to be temporary until there is a long term solution in place to combat the JIRA SPAM. I will keep you apprised of developments in that area and when there is something we'll get it in place here as soon as possible.
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Manu Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > For the first option, a JIRA has to be opened before a PR is submitted > according to our contributing guide > < > https://github.com/apache/incubator-gearpump/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contribute-codedocument-by-creating-pull-request > > > . > > For the second option, I think it's ok if there is no other way to go. That > said, I'm worried whether contributors will be discouraged. > > Thanks for taking care of this. > > Manu > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:48 AM Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The GEARPUMP JIRA instance suffered a bit of spam today because the group > > 'jira-users' was assigned to the Contributor role. I have removed it. > > Kindly do not add it back, nor to any role with even greater privilege. > > > > Apache Infrastructure is working on a long term solution to our JIRA spam > > problems. In the meantime we have a few options: > > - If a new contributor submits a PR, I believe a JIRA will be opened. > This > > can be tested. (I'm not sure.) > > - If a new contributor wants to create a ticket or have an existing one > > assigned to them, they can mail dev@gearpump and ask. They should first > > sign up for a JIRA account. Then someone on the project should add their > > specific JIRA id to the Contributors group. > > > > I have deleted the spam issues. > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > - Andy > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > > (via Tom White) > > > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
