Hi, All.
Since we use both Apache JIRA and GitHub actively for Apache Spark
contributions, we have lots of JIRAs and PRs consequently. One specific
thing I've been longing to see is `Jira Issue Type` in GitHub.
How about exposing JIRA issue types at GitHub PRs as GitHub `Labels`? There
are two main benefits:
1. It helps the communication between the contributors and reviewers with
more information.
(In some cases, some people only visit GitHub to see the PR and commits)
2. `Labels` is searchable. We don't need to visit Apache Jira to search PRs
to see a specific type.
(For example, the reviewers can see and review 'BUG' PRs first by using
`is:open is:pr label:BUG`.)
Of course, this can be done automatically without human intervention. Since
we already have GitHub Jenkins job to access JIRA/GitHub, that job can add
the labels from the beginning. If needed, I can volunteer to update the
script.
To show the demo, I labeled several PRs manually. You can see the result
right now in Apache Spark PR page.
- https://github.com/apache/spark/pulls
If you're surprised due to those manual activities, I want to apologize for
that. I hope we can take advantage of the existing GitHub features to serve
Apache Spark community in a way better than yesterday.
How do you think about this specific suggestion?
Bests,
Dongjoon
PS. I saw that `Request Review` and `Assign` features are already used for
some purposes, but these feature are out of the scope in this email.
