Ah, maybe it’s just different in other Apache projects. All the ones I’ve participated in have had their design discussions on JIRA. For example take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4949. (Most design discussions in Hadoop are also on JIRA).
Hosting it this way is more convenient because most users come in looking at the issue tracker, not at mailing list archives (if only because the issue tracker is much more searchable for issues). Matei On May 18, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Jacek Laskowski <ja...@japila.pl> wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Ash <and...@andrewash.com> wrote: >> The nice thing about putting discussion on the Jira is that everything >> about the bug is in one place. So people looking to understand the >> discussion a few years from now only have to look on the jira ticket rather >> than also search the mailing list archives and hope commenters all put the >> string "SPARK-1855" into the messages. > > My understanding is that JIRA is not for discussions. In a sense it > could be used for a few opinions, but have never seen it elsewhere and > am curious if it's an approach for the project (that I might accept > ultimately, but that would require some adoption time). > > What wrong with linking a discussion thread to a JIRA issue? > > Jacek > > -- > Jacek Laskowski | http://blog.japila.pl > "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how > slow." Plato
