Perhaps I misunderstood the scope of this discussion - is it general
Hadoop or specific to some subset of Hadoop projects? Regardless, at
this time the ZooKeeper community would prefer to continue supporting
edits on comments.
Patrick
Doug Cutting wrote:
Patrick Hunt wrote:
As I understand it until recently we were able to edit comments, for
some reason it was changed.
This change was presented here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg42904.html
1) has editing of comments been a problem for the hadoop community --
were people misusing this?
For folks who follow issues by email, a small change requires that one
re-read the entire edited comment, since Jira's diffs are useless. Folks
were frequently editing long comments making it very difficult to
determine what change had been made. It's better to make a new comment
amending one's prior comment.
I have long argued against editing Jira comments.
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute
See the "Jira Guidelines" near the end of the page. This was added in
2007.
Doug
