As an user, I support the change. Needless to say, moving to GitHub is clearly a move that will ease the work of both current and future contributors. We already spend almost the entire day on GitHub 😂, so it will be better to have everything in just one platform 😎
2017-05-17 18:36 GMT-03:00 Robert Samuel Newson <[email protected]>: > nice +1 :) > > > On 17 May 2017, at 22:32, Eli Stevens (Gmail) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > As a user and occasional bug reporter, I welcome the change. > > > > Searching for existing issues in JIRA was painful, mostly due to > > feeling like I had to repeat myself in saying that I wasn't interested > > in any of the other projects on the instance. > > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> \o\ /o/ \o/ <3 > >> > >>> On 17. May 2017, at 21:38, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi everyone. > >>> > >>> As most of you know, a few months ago we moved many of our primary > >>> repositories from primary Apache hosting to primary GitHub hosting. A > >>> major reason we did so was to leverage the better user experience of > >>> GitHub, especially for community interaction. > >>> > >>> It's now time for us to move from JIRA to GitHub Issues. Here's how: > >>> > >>> 0. The community reviews and approves this change. As a non-technical > >>> decision, our bylaws say that no formal vote is required, only a > >>> lazy majority from committers with 72 hours notice. That said, > >>> I'd like to ensure broad support for this change, so even if > >>> you're not a committer, please reply to this email with any > >>> comments. > >>> > >>> 1. Approve pull requests to update our issue and pull request templates > >>> and add a CONTRIBUTING.md file to our primary repositories: > >>> > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/527 > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-docker/pull/15 > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/132 > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/925 > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-nano/pull/44 > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg/pull/5 > >>> > >>> 2. Approve pull requests to update our webpage and documentation to > >>> point to GitHub apache/couchdb for issue reporting: > >>> > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/133 > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-www/pull/23 > >>> > >>> 3. Start using GH Issues for all new issues. At the same time, any > >>> committers who have completed the account integration process > >>> (see the new CONTRIBUTING.md file for details) should start > >>> labeling their issues and pull requests with the new scheme. > >>> The label scheme is here: > >>> > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/499 > >>> > >>> A reminder to committers - this means PRs don't need a JIRA ticket! > >>> And because PRs are just a special kind of GH Issue, there's no need > >>> to create a separate issue unless you want to. (Don't forget the > >>> labels!) > >>> > >>> 4. Start moving selected issues over from JIRA. At this point, only > >>> actively worked issues should be moved over. When developers pick > >>> up a new task from JIRA, they should create a companion GH Issue > >>> for the ticket and reference it in JIRA, then close the JIRA issue. > >>> > >>> 5. In the future, we will work to migrate more issues as desired. > >>> However, we won't be moving any 1.x-specific issues over to GitHub. > >>> > >>> At some point in the future, we will also consider: > >>> > >>> * A script to de-assign idle issues (and de-tag them if necessary) > >>> * A script to auto-repost new issues from JIRA into GH Issues. (We > >>> can't disable new issue creation in JIRA without shutting down > >>> the entire instance, and we don't want to do that.) > >>> > >>> This is perhaps the happiest email I've sent to any CouchDB mailing > list > >>> ever. I'm really excited about this change, and I bet you are too! > >>> > >>> Thanks to everyone who's helped us get this far, especially Apache > >>> Infrastructure for the Gitbox integration workflow. > >>> > >>> -Joan > > -- Joel Wallis Jucá joelwallis.com
