+1 for complete Github migration. JIRA is too cumbersome and painful to use.
Github PRs and wiki also improve visibility of the project and I think may increase community feedback and participation as its simpler to use. Prashant On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 8:41 PM Vinoth Chandar <vin...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > When we incubated Hudi, we made some initial choices around collaboration > tools of choice. I am wondering if there are still optimal, given the scale > of the community at this point. > > Specifically, two points. > > A) Our issue tracker is JIRA, while we just use Github Issues for support > triage. While JIRA is pretty advanced and gives us the ability to track > releases, versions and kanban boards, there are few practical operational > problems. > > - Developers often open bug fixes/PR which all need to be continuously > tagged against a release version (fix version) > - Referencing JIRAs from Pull Requests is great (we cannot do things like > `fixes #1234` to close issues when PR lands, not an easy way to click and > get to the JIRA) > - Many more developers have a github account, to contribute to Hudi though, > they need an additional sign-up on jira. > > So wondering if we should just use one thing - Github Issues, and build > scripts/hubot or something to get the missing project management from > boards. > > B) Our design docs are on cWiki. Even though we link it off the site, from > my experience, many do not discover them. > For large PRs, we need to manually enforce that design and code are in sync > before we land. If we can, I would love to make RFC being in good shape a > pre-requisite for landing the PR. > Once again, separate signup is needed to write design docs or comment on > them. > > So, wondering if we can move our process docs etc into Github Wiki and RFCs > to the master branch in a rfc folder, and we just use github PRs to raise > RFCs and discuss them. > > This all also makes it easy for us to measure community activity and keep > streamlining our processes. > > personally, these different channels are overwhelming to me at-least :) > > Love to hear thoughts. Please specify if you are for,against each of A and > B. > > > Thanks > Vinoth >
