+1 // Simon Svensson
On 2020-04-10 13:51, Shad Storhaug wrote: > Over the years, there have been several mailing list discussions about how > the Lucene.NET project "seems dead" and the one issue I find most striking is > the lack of continuity between contributing on GitHub and the rest of the > Apache tools in the arsenal, such as the mailing lists and the issue tracker > of choice, JIRA. > > The problem(s) with using JIRA: > > > 1. JIRA requires a separate login than the user already has if they are > contributing on GitHub. > 2. JIRA requires special permissions for new users to be able to open > issues. It isn't clear if the defaults are adequate, and if they are not, it > isn't clear how to change them. > 3. JIRA doesn't use Markdown for posting code snippets, which is a steep > learning curve for people that are used to GitHub Flavored Markdown. > 4. Lack of continuity. We pull the potential contributors' attention away > from GitHub and there is no path back. Referring to an issue in a PR or a PR > in an issue requires extra effort to do. > 5. Manual work to close issues. GitHub allows users to close issues via > commit message (i.e. fixes #443 or closes #443), but if JIRA has this > functionality it requires extra setup. > 6. Under-reporting of issues. The fact that it doesn't get a lot of > activity and we hear about issues years after they have been in play pretty > much speaks to its usefulness as gauged by the community. > > To quote the words from Prescott Nasser: > > "Weird as PMC Chair and what not - but I will say the thing that always slows > me down is the documentation for what's bring ported now (with appropriate > links to the java code), what needs work, open tickets, etc. > > We have JIRA, but it's not really updated or used much by many, we have the > mailing lists where from time to time someone puts in the work to document > all the stuff that is being worked on (Shad lately has been running with the > torch), but we don't have a single place that everyone can easily get to and > see what's going on that is kept up to date." > > Related mailing list issues: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/98ab7959a476a0bf5320ed1f69a9f511fd51aa42eb8a1ffc731c089f%40%3Cdev.lucenenet.apache.org%3E > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/55908993ce61ced10c2895af54758169d7ff6a4caa123a71ebf5028d%40%3Cdev.lucenenet.apache.org%3E > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c755e39cf729f349c769d67769a5bbf3b826eee73203b3351beab7c4%40%3Cdev.lucenenet.apache.org%3E > > However, we can switch to using GitHub issues instead of JIRA, which would > seem to fix all of these problems by moving all issues, PRs, and most > communication to a central place (the place where most people familiar with > GitHub expect it to be). > > Michael Condillac and I have been doing some research and it seems it is > pretty straightforward to: > > > 1. Enable GitHub Issues (INFRA ticket or YAML file) > 2. Import JIRA tickets into GitHub Issues, including the current JIRA > ticket number (Python script) > 3. Update the documentation/website to remove references to JIRA > 4. Keep the mailing lists updated with GitHub Issues (Apache's setup does > this automatically) > > > Please vote whether to enable GitHub Issues and deprecate the use of JIRA > (feedback also welcome). Only the PMC votes are counted as official, but we > would also appreciate the participation of the community. > > > +1 - Let's switch to GitHub Issues > 0 - Either JIRA or GitHub Issues will do > -1 - Let's stick with JIRA > > > Countdown to end of vote (72 Hours from now 2020-04-13 11:55AM): > https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=136&iso=20200413T1255 > > This is a procedural vote - majority rules. > > > > Regards, > > Shad Storhaug (NightOwl888) > > Project Chairperson - Apache Lucene.NET > > > > > > >
