I like this move. Thanks! On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone. > > As most of you know, a few months ago we moved many of our primary > repositories from primary Apache hosting to primary GitHub hosting. A > major reason we did so was to leverage the better user experience of > GitHub, especially for community interaction. > > It's now time for us to move from JIRA to GitHub Issues. Here's how: > > 0. The community reviews and approves this change. As a non-technical > decision, our bylaws say that no formal vote is required, only a > lazy majority from committers with 72 hours notice. That said, > I'd like to ensure broad support for this change, so even if > you're not a committer, please reply to this email with any > comments. > > 1. Approve pull requests to update our issue and pull request templates > and add a CONTRIBUTING.md file to our primary repositories: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/527 > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-docker/pull/15 > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/132 > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/925 > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-nano/pull/44 > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg/pull/5 > > 2. Approve pull requests to update our webpage and documentation to > point to GitHub apache/couchdb for issue reporting: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/133 > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-www/pull/23 > > 3. Start using GH Issues for all new issues. At the same time, any > committers who have completed the account integration process > (see the new CONTRIBUTING.md file for details) should start > labeling their issues and pull requests with the new scheme. > The label scheme is here: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/499 > > A reminder to committers - this means PRs don't need a JIRA ticket! > And because PRs are just a special kind of GH Issue, there's no need > to create a separate issue unless you want to. (Don't forget the > labels!) > > 4. Start moving selected issues over from JIRA. At this point, only > actively worked issues should be moved over. When developers pick > up a new task from JIRA, they should create a companion GH Issue > for the ticket and reference it in JIRA, then close the JIRA issue. > > 5. In the future, we will work to migrate more issues as desired. > However, we won't be moving any 1.x-specific issues over to GitHub. > > At some point in the future, we will also consider: > > * A script to de-assign idle issues (and de-tag them if necessary) > * A script to auto-repost new issues from JIRA into GH Issues. (We > can't disable new issue creation in JIRA without shutting down > the entire instance, and we don't want to do that.) > > This is perhaps the happiest email I've sent to any CouchDB mailing list > ever. I'm really excited about this change, and I bet you are too! > > Thanks to everyone who's helped us get this far, especially Apache > Infrastructure for the Gitbox integration workflow. > > -Joan >
