Thanks Sean for your elaborate and valuable explanation. I will look into
it from tomorrow and will reach out if required.

Have a good day.

Regards,
Rohit Mishra

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 11:20 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> To help with JIRA, I don't think you need to know a lot about the code
> structure. I think we're talking about more basic triage, like, is it
> a question that should go to the mailing list instead? is there enough
> detail to understand it at all? is it tagged with a few appropriate
> components, does its affected version make sense?  Finding duplicate
> issues is hard but quite valuable if you can identify related issues
> and mark them.
>
> I can also tell you about using the JIRA Client to search for issues
> that don't make much sense, like, open and targeting a released
> version.
>
> Actually I think anyone can modify issues in JIRA, so you don't need
> special permission. You could consult with me or Hyukjin or dev@ after
> making a few changes to check if they're on the right track.
>
> iss...@spark.apache.org (IIRC) gets a copy of all the JIRA emails
> about changes. I don't know if it's that useful to subscribe to.
>
> Documenting the code structure - might be kind of hard in any detail,
> but if you put together a doc that is useful and doesn't require a lot
> of maintenance, that gives a good overview, we could consider adding
> that to the developer docs.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:16 PM Rohit Mishra <rohitmishr1...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have recently joined the Dev mailing list to help the community. Since
> I am in my attempt to understand the code base before contributing, I think
> looking into Jira maintenance will be a good way to help. I will start
> looking into it. Do I need anyone’s approval?
> >
> > In case I need any help in the beginning can I mail here or there is a
> separate mailing id related to Jira maintenance?
> >
> > Just a trivial question- Do we have any document to give an overview of
> the code structure for newbie like me, I can create one if there isn’t any.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rohit Mishra
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 6:46 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for doing this - and I will say this is a great way for anyone
> >> out there to contribute directly to the project. Issue trackers need
> >> maintenance too. It's not that hard to spot basic problems with JIRAs
> >> and request fixes, as a way to engage the reporter usefully.
> >>
> >> I triage PRs but rarely look at JIRAs anymore, just because the volume
> >> and noise level is larger. But it is important.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:12 PM Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I would like to ask for some help about JIRA maintenance
> contributions in Apache Spark.
> >> > I tend to see less and less people active in JIRA maintenance
> contributions.
> >> >
> >> > I have regularly checked all JIRAs and monitored them continuously
> for the last 4 years.
> >> > For the last week, I didn't have time to take a look, and I felt
> frustrated that there are
> >> > many JIRAs that look clearly needing action. Here are the examples
> only from the last week:
> >> >
> >> > Exact duplication:
> >> >     Resolve one and link another one as a duplicate.
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32370
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32369
> >> >
> >> > Different languages:
> >> >     Ask English translations which dev people use to communicate.
> >> >     If the reporter is inactive, we can resolve it till then.
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32355
> >> >
> >> > No JIRA description:
> >> >      Ask to fill the JIRA description. Not so many people know what
> the issue the
> >> >     JIRA describes just from reading the title which will end up that
> nobody can work
> >> >     on the JIRA.
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32361
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32359
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32388
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32390
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32400
> >> >
> >> > Malformed image:
> >> >     If the attached image looks malformed to you, ask to fix.
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32433
> >> >
> >> > Questions:
> >> >     Questions should usually go to mailing list or stackoverflow per
> http://spark.apache.org/community.html
> >> > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32460
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > There is clear guidance about JIRA maintenance "Contributing to JIRA
> Maintenance"
> >> > in http://spark.apache.org/contributing.html (thanks @Sean Owen for
> writing this).
> >> > I hope to see more people and ask for some help in the JIRA
> maintenance.
> >> >
> >> > FWIW, at least I, as a PMC, monitor most of these JIRA maintenance
> contributions from the
> >> > community and take them into account when/where it should be.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks all in advance.
> >>
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