Ryan, I think that absolutely should have been two issues.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Ryan Blue <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/11/2015 02:53 PM, Sean Busbey wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Blue <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  I disagree. I think we all agree there's value to having separate
>>> commits,
>>> but logical breakdown of a task often goes into detail that, when
>>> mirrored
>>> into JIRA without reason, is just busy work.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>  What value does an issue provide if there is no discussion and it is just
>>> a box to tick when working on another issue?
>>>
>>> rb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I don't think we all agree there's value to having separate commits. The
>> time when I think it's valuable is precisely when the sub-tasks are
>> actually something that might benefit from additional discussion or
>> reviews
>> on jira.
>>
>
> I guess that explains the difference in opinion then. I think that there
> are cases where separating work across commits can make maintenance easier.
>
> For example, I just had a case in Parquet where I extended an existing API
> and added tests for a new method, then moved other parts of the codebase to
> the new version to fix a performance regression. I think that logical
> division makes sense, but I don't see value in separating them into two
> issues.
>
> rb
>
>
> --
> Ryan Blue
> Software Engineer
> Cloudera, Inc.
>

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