hi Jacob — this sounds very reasonable and fixes a rough edge for maintainers running into captcha issues.
Thanks Wes On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 6:44 AM Jacob Wujciak <ja...@voltrondata.com> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I would like to propose that we switch from basic authentication with JIRA > in the merge script and archery to PAT based token authentication. > > Basic authentication is deprecated in Jira Cloud [1] and PATs remove the > need to save your password in clear text (e.g. config file), PATS are > easily created [2], PATs can be revoked and an expiry date set. Token > authentication also does not trigger a captcha. The changes needed in > workflow and scripts are minimal and easily outweighed by the advantages. > > I have created a PR with the necessary changes [3]. > > Best, > Jacob > > [1]: > https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/deprecation-notice-basic-auth-and-cookie-based-auth/ > [2]: > https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/using-personal-access-tokens-1026032365.html > [3]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13283
