Agreed about the Review tool... I've had similar problems when it's used in Hadoop (however, thankfully, it's usage is fairly miniscule.)
Arun On May 25, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On May 25, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Steve Loughran >> <steve.lough...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 24 May 2012 06:15, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I've met other groups of people who like a JIRA centric view >>>> of the world. I suspect that if they did a bunch of other good things >>>> called out below, you or others would find the JIRA business >>>> digestible. Also, on the other hand, I fear that the co-employed >>>> contributors are collaborating in the hallway, and the lack of the >>>> context in JIRA or on the list is contributing to the problem. >>>> >>>> >>> I'm not convinced that JIRA helps communities. It's great in companies -IDE >>> integration, you can bounce issues to others, it pings your phone so often >>> you can use it as a network liveness test. It also lets you persist >>> discussions in a way that can be searched. In a busy project, it helps you >>> keep track of your workload, and can assist in sprint planning if you fill >>> in the est/actual workload fields. >> >> I don't claim that JIRA helps, but I also don't accept the proposition >> that JIRA hurts. >> >> I think that we should focus on the community, not the tools. The >> JIRA-oriented projects I follow have JIRA set to send all new issues, >> and all new comments, to the dev list. So all community members, and, >> in particular, all PMC members with a duty to supervise, see all the >> traffic. > > I have no problem with Jira, it is a great tool. My problem - specific to > the way Flume does things - is that they also use the Review tool and you end > up with a copy of a message from the Review tool and another copy of the same > thing from Jira. A LOT of those messages are pure noise. The ones that do > contain content do a poor job of quoting whatever is being commented on. So > the only way to really tell what is going on is to go into Jira and look at > every issue. > > Ralph > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/
