+1, we should strive to be consistent in the user-facing APIs / configs / UX.

I’m wondering if there’s any support in Jira for conditional fields, so that 
when you create a Jira issue if you tick off an option “Affects the UX?” it 
opens a mandatory text field to describe the changes.


> On 16 Oct 2020, at 20:19, Noble Paul <noble.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm proposing a process for every ticket which has a user facing
> change. The changes could be
> 
> * A new command/end point
> * A new request parameter
> * A configuration (solr.xml, clusterprops.json, or any other file in ZK)
> * A new file (part of file) in ZK
> * A new file in file system
> 
> I may have missed some.
> 
> Please ensure that the changes are described in the description of the
> JIRA. This gives a heads up to other committers that a new user facing
> change is being introduced.
> 
> Solr's UX is inconsistent & hard and the reason is that we all make
> user-facing changes without enough review. Of course we add ref guide
> documentation. But, it is not done until it is too late. The intent to
> make a change should be made clear well in advance so that we get
> early feedback. Other committers often see the changes pretty late and
> at this point it is too late to change because of backward
> incompatibility.
> 
> 
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