Will the mailing list stay active? Samuel Marks http://linkedin.com/in/samuelmarks
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 7:20 AM Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org> wrote: > Everyone, > > Apache now supports Github as a first class citizen ( > https://gitbox.apache.org/), so I think it's finally time to drop support > for (bloated, non-user friendly and passé) JIRA and move all the project > development to Github. > > We've pretty much done that in a limited fashion (due to Github repos being > read-only) for many years now, but we can now also move things such as > issue tracking and milestone / release management to Github. Not to mention > that JIRA hasn't been actively updated and managed for a while now... > > All the Github repos are configured so notifications about new PRs, issues, > comments, reviews, etc. (including edits) are emailed to our notifications@ > mailing list so full audit history is still preserved. > > I think this will help a lot with user friendliness and reduce the barrier > to contribution. It will also make life easier for committers / reviewers > since they can merge PRs directly. > > If there are no objections to that, next steps will include: > > 1. Opening ASF infra ticket to enable issue, milestone and > release management for our Github repository (we asked for it to be > disabled in the past when the repo was read-only for us) > > 2. Updating all the references to JIRA on our website and documentation. > This includes documenting new Github flow for contributors and committers > > 3. Closing the JIRA project and directing people to our Github repo and > contribution docs >
