Everyone, Apache now supports Github as a first class citizen ( https://gitbox.apache.org/), so I think it's finally time to drop support for (bloated, non-user friendly and passé) JIRA and move all the project development to Github.
We've pretty much done that in a limited fashion (due to Github repos being read-only) for many years now, but we can now also move things such as issue tracking and milestone / release management to Github. Not to mention that JIRA hasn't been actively updated and managed for a while now... All the Github repos are configured so notifications about new PRs, issues, comments, reviews, etc. (including edits) are emailed to our notifications@ mailing list so full audit history is still preserved. I think this will help a lot with user friendliness and reduce the barrier to contribution. It will also make life easier for committers / reviewers since they can merge PRs directly. If there are no objections to that, next steps will include: 1. Opening ASF infra ticket to enable issue, milestone and release management for our Github repository (we asked for it to be disabled in the past when the repo was read-only for us) 2. Updating all the references to JIRA on our website and documentation. This includes documenting new Github flow for contributors and committers 3. Closing the JIRA project and directing people to our Github repo and contribution docs
