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Nicholas Chammas commented on SPARK-6889:
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I also agree that most projects don't say "no" enough and it's actually bad for 
everyone. Yes, one goal was to also set more expectation that lots of changes 
are rejected. If there is widespread agreement, I'd also like firmer language 
in the guide. As you say it is also a matter of taste and culture, but, I'd 
personally favor a lot more "no".
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Regarding this point about culture, should we have some kind of discussion on 
the dev list to nudge people in the right direction?

> Streamline contribution process with update to Contribution wiki, JIRA rules
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-6889
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6889
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Documentation
>            Reporter: Sean Owen
>            Assignee: Sean Owen
>         Attachments: ContributingtoSpark.pdf, 
> SparkProjectMechanicsChallenges.pdf, faq.html.patch
>
>
> From about 6 months of intimate experience with the Spark JIRA and the 
> reality of the JIRA / PR flow, I've observed some challenges, problems and 
> growing pains that have begun to encumber the project mechanics. In the 
> attached SparkProjectMechanicsChallenges.pdf document, I've collected these 
> observations and a few statistics that summarize much of what I've seen. From 
> side conversations with several of you, I think some of these will resonate. 
> (Read it first for this to make sense.)
> I'd like to improve just one aspect to start: the contribution process. A lot 
> of inbound contribution effort gets misdirected, and can burn a lot of cycles 
> for everyone, and that's a barrier to scaling up further and to general 
> happiness. I'd like to propose for discussion a change to the wiki pages, and 
> a change to some JIRA settings. 
> *Wiki*
> - Replace 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark with 
> proposed text (NewContributingToSpark.pdf)
> - Delete 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Reviewing+and+Merging+Patches
>  as it is subsumed by the new text
> - Move the "IDE Setup" section to 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Useful+Developer+Tools
> - Delete 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Jira+Permissions+Scheme as 
> it's a  bit out of date and not all that useful
> *JIRA*
> Now: 
> Start by removing everyone from the 'Developer' role and add them to 
> 'Contributor'. Right now Developer has no permission that Contributor 
> doesn't. We may reuse Developer later for some level between Committer and 
> Contributor.
> Later, with Apache admin assistance:
> - Make Component and Affects Version required for new JIRAs
> - Set default priority to Minor and type to Question for new JIRAs. If 
> defaults aren't changed, by default it can't be that important
> - Only let Committers set Target Version and Fix Version
> - Only let Committers set Blocker Priority



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