Would it be possible to use a JIRA custom field (that's required) called
"Implementation" or something similarly named with choices of C++ and Java?
With more than just Java and C++ for components I'm afraid those two
choices might be overlooked when a ticket is created.

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Andy Christianson <
achristian...@hortonworks.com> wrote:

> Making it required sounds like an improvement, at the very least.
>
> -Andy I.C.
> ________________________________________
> From: Kevin Doran <kdoran.apa...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 11:22 AM
> To: dev@nifi.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Separate MiNiFi projects in JIRA
>
> Would  it suffice to make the existing 'component'  field _required_ at
> ticket creation time, and having components consist of 'C++', 'Java', &
> perhaps 'Both/All/*' as well? I imagine that is less effort than setting up
> and maintaining a separate project and solves the problem, unless there are
> advantages that a separate project would provide other than just issue
> filtering by C++/Java.
>
> Kevin
>
> On 8/21/17, 11:18, "Andy Christianson" <achristian...@hortonworks.com>
> wrote:
>
>     Joe,
>
>     We actually already have that. There is a 'C++' and 'Java' component.
> It works for the most part, but there are cases where it becomes ambiguous,
> particularly on docker-related tickets.
>
>     I think there's certainly an argument that we need to just track
> components more carefully. Having it be a separate JIRA would make it
> harder to make a ticket ambiguous. Is it worth the effort/overhead of
> setting up another JIRA? I'll leave that to the more
> experienced/established Apache parties since I don't know what the overhead
> cost is.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Andy I.C.
>     ________________________________________
>     From: Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com>
>     Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 11:10 AM
>     To: dev@nifi.apache.org
>     Subject: Re: Separate MiNiFi projects in JIRA
>
>     Can we recommend and setup a set of component names so that filtering
>     can be done reasonably?
>
>     If we do that would it be sufficient?
>
>     Alternatively we can ask ASF infra to setup another JIRA project such
>     as 'minificpp' but I'd like to avoid that until we're really sure we
>     want to bug em.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Andy Christianson
>     <achristian...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>     > Agree 100%. I have been bitten by this a few times. Is this
> something Aldrin can do/have done?
>     >
>     > -Andy I.C.
>     > ________________________________________
>     > From: Jeff Zemerick <jzemer...@apache.org>
>     > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 2:56 PM
>     > To: dev@nifi.apache.org
>     > Subject: Separate MiNiFi projects in JIRA
>     >
>     > The MINIFI project in JIRA is currently a combination of issues for
> both
>     > the C++ and Java implementations. Some issues for the C++ project do
> have
>     > the C++ component set but some don't and it can sometimes be hard to
> easily
>     > differentiate the issues by their titles. (There isn't a "Java"
> component
>     > so a useful filter is hard to make.) Has there been any
> consideration given
>     > to having separate JIRA projects for the C++/Java MiNiFi
> implementations?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Jeff
>     >
>     >
>
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