I will say helping a two new non-ASF people onboard to contributing to Spark the JIRA account creation did slow them down a bit which is probably ~fine since it was related to their jobs, but for folks who are trying to “scratch an itch” rather than doing it as part of their job it might be more of a barrier.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau Fight Health Insurance: https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ <https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/?q=hk_email> Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau Pronouns: she/her On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 7:27 PM Nicholas Chammas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 2026, at 9:27 AM, Szehon Ho <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > In my experience, because I see few committers discussing anything > technical on Spark JIRA for years as you mentioned (and other Hadoop > project JIRAs too), I feel like nobody will reply if I do, so I will make a > Github PR directly and ping for feedback there. So in addition to the UX > problem Tian mentioned, it's worsened by cause and effect. So it's become > a procedure, and we still don't have a good place to discuss without > jumping to code. > > This has often been my experience as well. The eyes are mainly on GitHub > and not Jira. > > > On Jan 30, 2026, at 12:12 AM, Jungtaek Lim <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Why can't we do this in two phases instead of trying to build Rome in a > day? > > Speaking as an occasional contributor, I would expect this to be more > effort than it’s worth. A phased migration is appealing because it feels > safer and more gradual, but I think everyone will be better off in the long > run with a speedy and clear cutover from Jira to GitHub. The longer the > transitional phase lasts, the more confusing it will be to new and > occasional contributors who are not following the dev process’s evolution > closely. > > Nick > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe e-mail: [email protected] > >
