+1 On 2 November 2014 19:52, Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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