This new situation around JIRA seems very similar to the existing situation around Slack. A new community member currently must acquire a Slack invite somehow, usually by emailing one of the lists. Mailing lists themselves involve a signup process, though it may be possible to email user/-zh/dev without first subscribing to the list.
I have a -0 opinion on using GitHub Issues to manage JIRA subscription access. It seems like a comical cascade of complexity. I’d prefer to keep GitHub Issues available to us as a future alternative to JIRA for project issue tracking. I agree with you that migrating away from JIRA will be painful. I’m not a big fan of having separate issue systems for users vs. devs. It emphasizes the idea that users and devs are different groups of people with unequal voice in the project direction. I suppose it could be done well, but I think it is more likely to be done poorly. I follow the Infra list, but only casually. It seems there’s a plan to eventually adopt some Atlassian Cloud service, which has better anti-spam controls. If that is on the roadmap, I’m content to let JIRA access follow Slack access: using some existing outreach to request access. Introducing a dedicated list would be fine with me as well. -n On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 03:19 Duo Zhang <zhang...@apache.org> wrote: > I've forwarded an announcement email from the INFRA team recently > about disabling the public sign ups for jira.a.o because of spamming. > And now the rule is finally applied, when you open jira.a.o, you can > see there is a gray bar on the top to tell you 'Public signup for this > instance is disabled. Our Jira Guidelines page explains how to get an > account.'. > > For me, I do not think it is easy for us to completely drop jira since > it is the issue tracker we have been using for years and all our > release processes are bound to it. So at least we need to find a way > to let our contributors know how to acquire a jira account. > > The hive project decided to use a dedicated mailing list for acquiring > a jira account. > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HowToContribute#HowToContribute-JIRA > > For me, I think maybe we could enable github issues for our users and > contributors. They can ask questions and report issues there and if we > think it is a bug that needs to be fixed, we could open a jira issue > for it. And we could also create a special issue template for > acquiring jira accounts. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks. >
