I think it’s just for people to know who is responsible for the work, much the same as for Reviewers. This can be useful to know before commit, and also to have a more easily queried source of the knowledge than in Git. It also permits searching in Jira for tickets by a particular person, and producing reports on said data (say).
FWIW, I’ve also got no strong pre-conceived position on this, I’m just bringing forward a request I’ve had made a couple of times off the back of the Jira changes. But, multi-author tickets seem to becoming a bit more common, and are something we should perhaps be encouraging. It’s also easiest to do now, while we’re in flux. > On 8 Apr 2019, at 14:01, Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: > > What problem are we trying to solve w/this proposed change? > > Is the thinking for live querying of things in progress, or is the thinking > for after-the-fact research to determine who wrote a thing to reach out to > them for context? If the latter, does a change in JIRA metadata give us > more context than good git commit message hygiene (i.e. list all authors on > commit msg)? > > fwiw, no religion on the topic here. Just curious. > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 8:55 AM Benedict Elliott Smith <bened...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> A couple of people have recently raised the possibility of an Author field >> in JIRA, that permits multiple authors (much like we now support multiple >> reviewers). >> >> Unfortunately this can never be quite as clean as Reviewers, as Assignee >> is a core Jira field and cannot be replaced entirely by Authors. However, >> when we (hopefully later) get the ScriptRunner add-on, we might be able to >> manage it transparently. >> >> In the meantime, I don’t see any harm in introducing an Author field >> anyway. Does anyone have any objections? >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
