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Sree Vaddi commented on SPARK-6889:
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[~srowen]
I am not disagreeing with your proposed changes, at all.  Pardon me, English is 
my third language.
Change is inevitable and I embrace it.
The two points I mentioned, is to give you a feel, what its like when you go 
after proposing a change and where it might end up when implementing it, at 
Apache.
If given a choice I'd pick cwiki and no svn website at all.  Check 
http://code.google.com/, you'd find everything in ONE place there, right in 
front of one's face. And I agree. This is the last on it.
[~srowen] Would you help advocate this with Apache ?

For 'new comers and fairly new comers', a walk along with occasional hand 
holding, is highly effective, in my opinion.  This is keeping in mind, for 
those outside US.

In some projects, the jira's and other tasks are qualified for new comers to 
work on.  It makes it much easy for the new comers to where in jira's to look 
for or do a quick search, something that can get them on to contributing 
code/documentation/any.
[~nchammas] I agree. There is a thread with the same subject going on there, 
too.

Happy Contributing :-)

> 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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