Hi Naveen,

Can we clarify that how JIRA improved the project?  One key Apache spirit is
about transparent, but I didn't see the current way we are using JIRA
improves it. Comparing to Spark, one major problem is that we have 10x less
active contributors. Even PyTorch is 3x more active (#commits, #LOC
#contributors) than us. If JIRA makes contributing harder, we should
consider a better approach.

Best
Mu

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Naveen Swamy <[email protected]> wrote:

> -1 (binding)
>
> The very reason why JIRA was suggested so that the project is more open on
> the features that are worked on. There are 900+ issues, that once in a
> while gets closed without any reason has happened already once.
> There is already integration with GitHub PRs, please check it out.
>
> Features pop into the code-base without any discussion, they also get
> removed without any discussion. PRs come in when the feature is complete,
> not giving others  opportunity to understand/contribute or have a say.
>
> If this project embraces the true Apache spirit and follow successful
> practices we could get lot more people excited about this project. Many
> successful Apache projects use JIRA, look at Apache Spark which has 1250+
> contributors and built a community of 500,000 people around the world.
>
> -Naveen
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Eric Xie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since all of MXNet's development happens on Github, I think it's
> > sufficient to use Github Issues and Github Projects for tracking. There
> are
> > also many other plugins you can add to Github if issues and projects are
> > not enough.
> >
> > It's very easy to cross reference PRs and issues for tracking. In
> > comparison, JIRA is an outdated system with very little features and no
> > integration with Github. I think using it achieves nothing but additional
> > overhead.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
> >
>

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