+1 While the intention of JIRA was good, we have proven as a community that we are not able to use it properly and it's only being a burden. The initial idea was that it allows us to manage projects publicly, make plans and allow everybody to engage into these projects by just picking small tasks.
The reality is that everybody is just copy and pasting the PR title into JIRA, there are no projects with subtasks, tickets are not maintained and just stay open, there is no labelling in place or anything. In that state, it does not provide any value. I don't really see how this is going to change and thus it's better to remove the system altogether. It's a pity that we as a community were not able to get this to work, but that's the reality. In the best interest of our contributors, it'd be the best to remove it again. Best regards, Marco Mu Li <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr., 8. Juni 2018, 19:49: > 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 > > > > > >
