Hi all, Historically we've insisted that people go through the process of creating a Jira issue and attaching a patch or linking a branch to demonstrate intent-to-contribute and to make sure we have a unified record of changes in Jira.
But I understand that other Apache projects are now recognizing a github pull request as intent-to-contribute [1] and some are even making github the official repo, with an Apache mirror, rather than the other way around. (Maybe this is required to accept pull requests, I am not sure.) Should we revisit our policy here? [1] e.g. https://github.com/apache/spark/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
