Re: JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Henry Saputra
Yup, I am seeing this in some other Apache projects as well and usually if being asked to add more information more reporter gladly comply as requested. Have to diligently nudge some JIRA filers at the beginning but usually people see that more description are better and the habit get pick up by n

Re: JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Matei Zaharia
I agree as well. FWIW sometimes I've seen this happen due to language barriers, i.e. contributors whose primary language is not English, but we need more motivation for each change. On July 29, 2014 at 5:12:01 PM, Nicholas Chammas (nicholas.cham...@gmail.com) wrote: +1 on using JIRA workflows

Re: JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Nicholas Chammas
+1 on using JIRA workflows to manage the backlog, and +9000 on having decent descriptions for all JIRA issues. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > How about using a JIRA status like "Documentation Required" to mean > "burden's on you to elaborate with a motivation and/or PR". Th

Re: JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Sean Owen
How about using a JIRA status like "Documentation Required" to mean "burden's on you to elaborate with a motivation and/or PR". This could both prompt people to do so, and also let one see when a JIRA has been waiting on the reporter for months, rather than simply never been looked at, and should t

Re: JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Reynold Xin
+1 on this. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Mark Hamstra wrote: > Of late, I've been coming across quite a few pull requests and associated > JIRA issues that contain nothing indicating their purpose beyond a pretty > minimal description of what the pull request does. On the pull request > it

JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Hamstra
Of late, I've been coming across quite a few pull requests and associated JIRA issues that contain nothing indicating their purpose beyond a pretty minimal description of what the pull request does. On the pull request itself, a reference to the corresponding JIRA in the title combined with a desc