I'm fine with that. No problem in putting stuff in JIRA per se -- it's
just making sure we preserve JIRA's role as a workflow tool. That is,
as you say, if such issues were marked early as WontFix or something
similar that would solve it; we wouldn't have issues floating around
that appear to want review and committing when they don't.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think this is quite right.  If he puts it up on Github, then we have 
> to go searching for it and it is not officially part of the project.  JIRA is 
> a perfectly fine place to explore ideas with real patches, which, at the end 
> of the discussion may result in a "won't fix", but it shouldn't be decided up 
> front just because it is still being thought through.  Naturally, a 
> discussion on dev@ might be warranted first if no code is involved, but by 
> putting it in JIRA we have captured: the idea, the code, and the 
> contributor's intent to donate it.   Someone else or Lance may very well come 
> along and improve on it such that it does become commit worthy.  Iterating on 
> ideas in JIRA should be encouraged and I think Lance let everyone know right 
> up front that they can choose to ignore this for now if they are so inclined 
> so as to not waste anyone's time.

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