zhengruifeng commented on PR #57818:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/57818#issuecomment-5211051781

   I checked the latest 1,000 commits on `upstream/master` (2026-06-10 through 
2026-08-06) to see how the tag is used in practice.
   
   - 70 follow-up PR commits were found, plus one revert whose quoted subject 
contains the tag.
   - All 70 use `[FOLLOWUP]`; none use `[FOLLOW-UP]`.
   - 68/70 have an earlier commit carrying the same JIRA ID.
   - The median gap from the preceding same-JIRA commit is 7 days; 59/68 are 
within 30 days.
   
   Classifying each PR by its primary purpose (some categories overlap at the 
edges):
   
   | Primary use case | Count |
   | --- | ---: |
   | Tests, CI, lint, and test coverage | 22 |
   | Correctness, compatibility, or edge-case fixes | 16 |
   | Review refinements, refactors, cleanup, or performance | 15 |
   | Documentation, messages, and version metadata | 7 |
   | Build, release, packaging, and tooling follow-through | 7 |
   | Continued implementation or missing support | 3 |
   
   Representative examples include correctness fixes (#57820, #57760), 
post-merge tests or review feedback (#57392, #57631), design refinement 
(#56606, #56595), documentation or metadata corrections (#57252, #57121), 
build/release follow-through (#57738, #56996), and missing-mode support 
(#57024).
   
   The common pattern is therefore broader than directly fixing code: 
`[FOLLOWUP]` describes a PR relationship to specific earlier work. Normal uses 
include fixes, omitted tests/docs/tooling, post-merge feedback, design 
refinements, and missing support.
   
   JIRA reuse is strongly conventional but not absolute in this sample. Two 
follow-ups have no earlier commit with the same JIRA: #57738 uses SPARK-58534 
for the 4.4 MiMa follow-through, and #57039 uses SPARK-57961 for a linter 
failure introduced by #57037 (SPARK-57959).
   
   This commit-history scan does not by itself establish the release-state 
boundary; determining whether every preceding change was unreleased would 
require mapping the earlier PRs to release branches/tags.


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