+1 to always a jira.

there's another option to consider, a big one, which is; move to github
issues.

+direct IDE integration
+direct AI integration
+good cross reference between issue and PR

Parquet and iceberg use them, and I am coming to appreciate them.

github issues aren't as powerful as jira, but how much of that tooling do
asf projects use?


On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 07:11, Ayush Saxena <[email protected]> wrote:

> I will go with A as well. I am old school.
> * Creating JIRA isn't tough
> * We have been doing that since ages
> * Trivial/Minor maybe from code point of view, but every contribution
> and the contributor is equally valuable, so, I don't want that
> situation your ticket is trivial, you don't need credits over Jira, or
> your names misses the release note, do some thing ambitious.
>
> -Ayush
>
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 09:40, Xiaoqiao He <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Prefer A from my side. My points:
> > a. How to define trivial or minor changes. We need an explicit
> > rule first, then follow it when committing.
> > b. It will be difficult for end users to trace these changes without
> > JIRA-ID.
> > c. Creating JIRA is not hard for contributors, at least for me.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > - He Xiaoqiao
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 1:04 AM Chris Nauroth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > +1 for B. I think some other projects use this policy, and it works
> well
> > > for them.
> > >
> > > Keep in mind that release notes automation is driven from the release
> note
> > > field in JIRA, so make sure to use JIRA if you want it in the release
> > > notes. I guess though by definition anything worthy of a release note
> is
> > > non-trivial.
> > >
> > > Chris Nauroth
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 1:55 AM Cheng Pan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > +1 to B
> > > >
> > > > MINOR. This is title of the pull request
> > > >
> > > > I suggest adopting such a standard prefix for small changes.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Cheng Pan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Apr 21, 2026, at 08:32, Aaron Fabbri <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 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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