Is it possible to configure JIRA to include patch content in notification emails?
On 08/12/2010 09:13 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: David Dabbs <dmda...@gmail.com> >> To: thrift-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 11:32:58 PM >> Subject: RE: time for a reboot? >> >>>> sometimes that cuts against having multiple people involved. >>> Do you have a sense for why that is? >>> I think switching to the mailing list for code reviews would >>> be a pain, and I'd rather fix whatever problem prevents >>> people from contributing to JIRA discussions >>> (or switch to a real code review tool) than just toss it. >> >> >> >> If you are using JIRA, oss license I presume, then why not also use >> Atlassian's Cruicible? > > Some projects at Apache do use Crucible with some success, but the > problem I'm driving at is based on the fact that patches attached > to jira don't get looked at by more than a handful of people, whereas > patches sent to the thrift-dev@ list are at least seen by every subscriber. > Open source is a very lazy development system, where the more stuff you > put between the code and a person's eyeballs the less likely they'll > actually bother. > > Email as the main communication vehicle for open source development > has survived largely because it puts the patches right there in > everyone's inbox. Even very lazy people don't mind skimming commit > messages for interesting content ;-). That's why some projects > at Apache don't keep the commit messages on a seperate list from the > development list. > > >
