JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Hamstra
Of late, I've been coming across quite a few pull requests and associated JIRA issues that contain nothing indicating their purpose beyond a pretty minimal description of what the pull request does. On the pull request itself, a reference to the corresponding JIRA in the title combined with a

Re: JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Reynold Xin
+1 on this. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Mark Hamstra m...@clearstorydata.com wrote: Of late, I've been coming across quite a few pull requests and associated JIRA issues that contain nothing indicating their purpose beyond a pretty minimal description of what the pull request does. On

Re: JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Nicholas Chammas
+1 on using JIRA workflows to manage the backlog, and +9000 on having decent descriptions for all JIRA issues. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Sean Owen so...@cloudera.com wrote: How about using a JIRA status like Documentation Required to mean burden's on you to elaborate with a motivation

Re: JIRA content request

2014-07-29 Thread Matei Zaharia
I agree as well. FWIW sometimes I've seen this happen due to language barriers, i.e. contributors whose primary language is not English, but we need more motivation for each change. On July 29, 2014 at 5:12:01 PM, Nicholas Chammas (nicholas.cham...@gmail.com) wrote: +1 on using JIRA workflows