+1 to B MINOR. This is title of the pull request
I suggest adopting such a standard prefix for small changes. Thanks, Cheng Pan > On Apr 21, 2026, at 08:32, Aaron Fabbri <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mea culpa: I recently merged a trivial, one-commit PR without an > accompanying Jira. > > Cheng Pan mentioned this is probably not accepted practice: > > https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/8439#issuecomment-4276717996 > > Looks like he was right according to our How To Contribute guide[1]. > > Filing Jiras for trivial changes like this (fixing spelling in comments) > creates clutter and wastes time, but there may be some reasons we want this. > > Some options: > A. Require a JIRA. > B. Allow a standard prefix like "trivial:" or "MINOR:" in place of the Jira > ID. > C. Send Fabbri straight to jail and never speak of this again. > > A compromise for A could be to file a permanent "Trivial Changes" JIRA > explaining it applies to non-code changes of limited scope. I could add > that to the contribution guide if people liked that idea. > > Apologies if I missed previous discussions about this. Thanks, > Aaron > > 1. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=70255755#HowToContribute-Provideapatch --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
