Hi all,
I just noticed the README.md (https://github.com/apache/spark) does not describe the steps or links to follow for creating a PR or JIRA directly. I know probably it is sensible to search google about the contribution guides first before trying to make a PR/JIRA but I think it seems not enough when I see some inappropriate PRs/JIRAs time to time. I guess flooding JIRAs and PRs is problematic (assuming from the emails in dev mailing list) and I think we should explicitly mention and describe this in the README.md and pull request template[1]. (I know we have CONTBITUTING.md[2] and wiki[3] but it seems pretty true that we still have some PRs or JIRAs not following the documentation.) So, my suggestions are as below: - Create a section maybe "Contributing To Apache Spark" describing the Wiki and CONTRIBUTING.md[2] in the README.md. - Describe an explicit warning in pull request template[1], for example, "Please double check if your pull request is from a branch to a branch. In most cases, this change is not appropriate. Please ask to mailing list ( http://spark.apache.org/community.html) if you are not sure." [1]https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE [2]https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md [3]https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Wiki+Homepage Thank you all.
