Hi Attila,
Thanks for raising this concern of yours. Please see inline.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Attila Simon <s...@cloudera.com> wrote:

> The how to contribute page asks to have a jira first for each change. I
> guess with allowing pull requests we have to update the how to contribute
> page as well (which only describes attaching patch and using review board).
>

Yes, it appeared that we had consensus for allowing PR on a couple separate
dev@ threads a while back [1], [2].

The Flume contributor docs are currently a bit stale. I have recently
updated the How to Release cwiki page but if you want to volunteer to
update some of the other docs that would be very welcome! Please let me
know if you want to help and I can give you cwiki edit access if you send
me your account id. Side note: Donat has recently proposed moving those
docs from cwiki to the Git repo which I think would be a big improvement.

I would like to ask committers to reestablish the habit of having a jira
> for each commit and start the message with that jira.
>

Forcing people to file a JIRA when they are already doing a PR feels like
pointless extra paperwork to me. There is certainly a place for JIRA in a
software project, but I think that is to track unfixed bugs, ongoing tasks
/ projects, etc.


> If we would like to relax the have jira for each change (for pull requests)
> then I would suggest putting the request id as the first thing in the
> commit message.
>

Why?

If you click on this:
https://github.com/apache/flume/commit/87d4c2c13862144eb578b211bcf800b2206834ff

You will see that the text "Closes #70" creates a clickable hyperlink to
the PR. Is this not sufficient for tracking purposes?

Mike

[1] https://s.apache.org/k31f
[2] https://s.apache.org/Skm2

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