I will go with A as well. I am old school. * Creating JIRA isn't tough * We have been doing that since ages * Trivial/Minor maybe from code point of view, but every contribution and the contributor is equally valuable, so, I don't want that situation your ticket is trivial, you don't need credits over Jira, or your names misses the release note, do some thing ambitious.
-Ayush On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 09:40, Xiaoqiao He <[email protected]> wrote: > > Prefer A from my side. My points: > a. How to define trivial or minor changes. We need an explicit > rule first, then follow it when committing. > b. It will be difficult for end users to trace these changes without > JIRA-ID. > c. Creating JIRA is not hard for contributors, at least for me. > Thanks. > > Best Regards, > - He Xiaoqiao > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 1:04 AM Chris Nauroth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 for B. I think some other projects use this policy, and it works well > > for them. > > > > Keep in mind that release notes automation is driven from the release note > > field in JIRA, so make sure to use JIRA if you want it in the release > > notes. I guess though by definition anything worthy of a release note is > > non-trivial. > > > > Chris Nauroth > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 1:55 AM Cheng Pan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > +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] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
