I think a PR template would be great.  Lets see yours Cassandra!

~ David Smiley
Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
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On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 9:35 AM Cassandra Targett <casstarg...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Heh, here’s another idea I’ve had in my drafts folder for a while but
> thought if I suggest it I should be available to follow up on it and wasn’t
> sure if I’d have time to properly.
>
> I actually started a pull request template and have a mostly complete
> version I could share (via a PR, I guess?). I don’t think it will 100%
> solve it, but it would greatly increase the number of issues that comply,
> for lack of a better term, with our processes/expectations for changes. In
> my draft I also included a short checklist to encourage people to make
> the patch for master, include tests with their patches, run precommit,
> and a few other things I thought might help new contributors understand
> what we need to get their patches reviewed faster.
>
> Your D and E ideas are interesting. I worry about fragmenting where
> definitive info about changes is stored (D) - I think there is a lot of
> value in having a single system of record for the community.
>
> I’d definitely be for exploring moving entirely to Github (E) - I think I
> said something along those lines in the lucene-solr Slack channel a few
> months ago - but have not spent much time figuring out all the downstream
> implications. I think we’d have to consider what we would gain vs what we
> would lose. I definitely don’t yet have a list, but I’m not initially
> against the idea.
>
> Cassandra
> On Jun 7, 2019, 5:53 AM -0500, Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com>, wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have some contributors that open GitHub PRs without also opening a JIRA
> and linking the two. Probably because they are used to that workflow from
> other projects and expect someone to have a look at the contribution. There
> is an email sent to the dev list, and sometimes it is noticed, other times
> the PR just falls through the cracks and is forgotten.
>
> Here is a list of currently open PRs without a JIRA attached, 51 in total:
>
>
> https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pulls?utf8=✓&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+NOT+LUCENE+in%3Atitle+AND+NOT+SOLR+in%3Atitle+
> <https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+NOT+LUCENE+in%3Atitle+AND+NOT+SOLR+in%3Atitle+>
>
> How can we improve on the situation? I see a few alternatives:
>
> A. Setup a bot with a GitHub WebHook that inspects the title and auto adds
> a comment if LUCENE or SOLR is missing
> https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#pullrequestevent
> B. Send the result of the above query to the dev@ list monthly for
> someone to jump in and interact
> C. Add a GitHub Pull-Request Template
> https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-pull-request-template-for-your-repository
> In there put some text about the requirement for a JIRA
> D. Treat PRs as first-class issues, without the need for a shadow JIRA. In
> that case, we'd reference PRs in CHANGES too, e.g.:
> * #217: Fix bug foo
> E. Migrate away from JIRA and use GitHub issues + PR instead. Some Apache
> projects do that already :)
>
> Let the discussion begin :)
>
> --
> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
>
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