I personally don't think that having a single record of truth and asking people to use that record is asking too much. I'm not in favor at all of removing the requirement for tickets to track work. Perhaps if we were entirely in git hub it would be one thing but we aren't.
C On Jun 8, 2015 12:42 AM, "Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Camille, > > On 7 June 2015 at 14:59, Camille Fournier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I personally think all PRs should have an associated JIRA. This is also > the > > requirement I have on my engineering team at work, and it seems totally > > reasonable to me. > > > > Thanks for sharing! Is it with a git pull request work flow though? Take > this — small albeit important — > pull request for instance: > > https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/32 > > I think it would be nice to avoid asking casual contributors to file JIRAs > for those small patches so > the impedance for contributing is reduced. > > Also, having the committer do the paperwork sounds like too much red tape > given that > the pull request is already pretty well documented. I at least would be > very happy > if we could just push those patches by referencing the PR in the comment, > instead of a JIRA. > > I also suspect that eventually we might end up moving to git, so I think > there is value in allowing > pull requests as a submission mechanism (for some cases?), since it'll make > the eventual transition > smoother and with less unknowns. > > > -rgs > > > > > C > > > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés < > > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Heya, > > > > > > there's an increasing number of pull requests (PRs) coming through > github > > > (great! more contributions!). How do we deal with them? Do we need to > > file > > > a corresponding JIRA before we merge them or can we just reference the > > PR? > > > > > > I rather not tax the contributors with having to file the JIRA, but > > taxing > > > the committer is also not great.. Thoughts? > > > > > > > > > -rgs > > > > > >
