+1 for GH issues mainly because it lowers the barrier to entry and
JIRA won't be an acceptable solution any longer with infra's proposed
changes.  I suspect I'd be +1 even without the infra change though
providing everyone else was willing to make the switch.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:19 AM Jacob Wujciak
<ja...@voltrondata.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> While there will be some work associated with migrating to Github Issues I
> think it is the only viable solution that does not impose an untenable
> burden on the PMC. Additionally I think that using gh issues will lower the
> barrier for new contributions as experienced by arrow-rs. I don't think
> another third-party tool is the solution as it would add maintenance burden
> on the arrow community (I doubt INFRA will setup anything else in addition
> to JIRA) with questionable value.
>
> I have no experience with github discussions but reading about it, it might
> be a good replacement for the functions our issues currently have with a
> more forum/board like format that might increase discoverability of
> discussions. Issue template can now do more than just be prefilled with
> text but actually act as forms: [1]
>
> > * Issue links: It seems that we can't do this.
> Well we can mention #issue_number in the comment closing the issue and gh
> issues now have two distinct closing states for done and
> won't-fix/duplicate.
>
> [1]:
> https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#creating-issue-forms
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:56 AM Sutou Kouhei <k...@clear-code.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > +1 on migration.
> >
> > > The one thing I would not want to lose, though, is the categorization
> > > facilities we currently have in Jira. Namely: Component, Affects
> > > version, Fix version, Type (bug/improvement/task...), Issue links
> > > (superceded by/relates to/is caused by...), Priority (at least
> > > Minor/Major/Blocker).
> >
> > I tried using some GitHub features.
> >
> > * Component: We already use GitHub's label feature
> >   * e.g.: lang-c++:
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Alang-c%2B%2B
> > * Affects version: Create new labels such as "affect-10.0.0"?
> > * Fix version: We can use GitHub's milestone feature
> >   * I tried creating the "11.0.0" milestone:
> >     https://github.com/apache/arrow/milestone/1
> > * Type: GitHub's label feature or custom field in GitHub's
> >   project feature?
> >   * I tried creating a GitHub project for Apache Arrow:
> >     https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/148
> >     * All Apache Arrow committers have Admin role. You can
> >       change anything to learn GitHub's project feature.
> > * Issue links: It seems that we can't do this.
> > * Priority: GitHub's label feature or custom field in GitHub's
> >   project feature?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > kou
> >
> > In <82d49482-706d-081b-32e7-f692bc282...@python.org>
> >   "Re: [DISCUSS] Move issue tracking to <something>" on Sat, 22 Oct 2022
> > 16:19:14 +0200,
> >   Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Neal,
> > >
> > > Le 22/10/2022 à 15:35, Neal Richardson a écrit :
> > >> Their email says:
> > >>
> > >>> Infra knows this process change places an increasing burden on PMC
> > >>> members
> > >>> for managing contributors, and makes it harder for people to
> > >>> contribute
> > >> bug reports.
> > >>> We suggest projects consider using GitHub Issues for customer-facing
> > >> questions/bug
> > >>> reports/etc., while maintaining development issues on Jira.
> > >> but I think that having a two-tiered system for issue tracking
> > >> presents
> > >> some notable downsides for us, including:
> > >> * Increased barriers to entry for new contributors and a sense of
> > >> inequality between "us" and "them". There's already too much friction
> > >> IMO,
> > >> and this pushes that up significantly.
> > >> * Maintenance burden of triaging and synchronizing issues across
> > >> * trackers
> > >> sounds like a lot for us to take on. I'd prefer the active maintainers
> > >> on
> > >> the project spend their time shipping useful, reliable software, not
> > >> doing
> > >> bookkeeping.
> > >
> > > I fully agree with your concerns.  So I'm +1 on migrating to
> > > *something else*.
> > >
> > > The one thing I would not want to lose, though, is the categorization
> > > facilities we currently have in Jira. Namely: Component, Affects
> > > version, Fix version, Type (bug/improvement/task...), Issue links
> > > (superceded by/relates to/is caused by...), Priority (at least
> > > Minor/Major/Blocker).
> > >
> > > How much of that can be recreated in Github Issues, or any other
> > > alternative?
> > >
> > > A secondary question is whether it's possible to migrate the current
> > > issues. Would be nice to have, but not blocking either (IMHO).
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Antoine.
> >

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