I just stumbled over a sentence in Fauxton's contributing.md ( https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) which made me curious:
(instructions to create a branch with the ticket-id in front of it): followed by a: "If there is no Jira ticket for the issue you have, please create one." I would like to remove that sentence for several reasons: - Summed up over a year it takes a lot of time to find each extra for a PR created Jira ticket and close it, often people forget to close the ticket after the PR is merged (or do not have the karma for it?). - Another reason for removing this rule is that we do not act to this rule in the project - the theory differs a lot from the practical day-to-day business we are living. - It also raises the entry barrier for folks which just want to fix a small bug they found, but have to register an account on Jira first, then verify their email, find out how to create a bug on Jira and then write it and just after that are able to submit a patch for a bug which is probably my main reason I would like to remove this advice. I opened a PR on https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/125 which will be open until next week wednesday. There is no need to reply if you are happy with this change. Best, Robert
