Thanks Tomoko!

I'm +1 on no longer requiring external contributors to create JIRA
issues, JIRA can be quite intimidating the first time you have to deal
with it with its complex UI, specific markup language, etc. This will
hopefully improve the experience of first-time contributors.

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 4:30 PM Tomoko Uchida
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Assuming there are no strong objections, I merged the PR. This is effective 
> from now on.
> In brief, a CHANGES entry can refer Jira issues or GItHub pull requests. In 
> the latter case, Jira issue is not required or is optional (it's up to the 
> author).
>
>
>
> 2022年4月30日(土) 12:29 Tomoko Uchida <[email protected]>:
>>
>> The pull request receives one approval and a few comments. Feedback is 
>> welcome, thank you.
>>
>> There are no effects on the current contribution workflow though, this could 
>> slightly change the forms of communication (some people will continue to use 
>> both Jira and GitHub as before, some people might tend to use GitHub only).
>>
>> I am not familiar with how to proceed with such workflow changes; according 
>> to the "lazy consensus" concept that is well described on this page, I plan 
>> to merge it with an example CHANGES entry later next week if there are no 
>> objections.
>> https://community.apache.org/committers/lazyConsensus.html
>>
>> Tomoko
>>
>>
>> 2022年4月29日(金) 22:01 Tomoko Uchida <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Hello all.
>>>
>>> I guess this has been discussed before (several times). Once again, I would 
>>> propose to relax the requirement for creating JIRA account/issue when 
>>> contributing.
>>>
>>> LUCENE-10545 allows CHANGES.txt to directly mention to GitHub PR (to be 
>>> exact, I just fixed the obsoleted link to the repository) so that 
>>> developers can skip opening a JIRA if he/she is ready to start the 
>>> conversation with a working PR.
>>> To see how it will work, please see the associated PR on it - this includes 
>>> a concrete example.
>>>
>>> Please note that this does not replace Jira with Github (we still 
>>> absolutely need issues for discussion and migrating Jira issue to GitHub 
>>> issue is out of the scope here), but provides an option for developers who 
>>> already have working patches.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Tomoko



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