Mea culpa: I recently merged a trivial, one-commit PR without an
accompanying Jira.

Cheng Pan mentioned this is probably not accepted practice:

https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/8439#issuecomment-4276717996

Looks like he was right according to our How To Contribute guide[1].

Filing Jiras for trivial changes like this (fixing spelling in comments)
creates clutter and wastes time, but there may be some reasons we want this.

Some options:
A. Require a JIRA.
B. Allow a standard prefix like "trivial:" or "MINOR:" in place of the Jira
ID.
C. Send Fabbri straight to jail and never speak of this again.

A compromise for A could be to file a permanent "Trivial Changes" JIRA
explaining it applies to non-code changes of limited scope. I could add
that to the contribution guide if people liked that idea.

Apologies if I missed previous discussions about this. Thanks,
Aaron

1.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=70255755#HowToContribute-Provideapatch

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