Re: Github vs Jira for comments

[Brian Geffon <br...@gmail.com>]

Just a constructive comment but I perosonslly am sort of sick of getting 3
emails for every GitHub comment :/ anything we can do about that regardless?

Brian

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, Sudheer Vinukonda
<su...@yahoo-inc.com.invalid> wrote:

> It seems like there are pros and cons in both approaches -
> While having the discussions on the Jira ticket allows for consistency and
> easy to locate them, having comments (especially, code-level comments) on
> GitHub allows for highlighting specific portions of the code.
> Internally, we make the GitHub PR automatically add a link to the
> associated Jira, which allows us to have the benefits of both :=).
> If it's possible to do such a thing, that might be a better option?
> If not, I vote for Jira too.
> Thanks,
> Sudheer
>
>   On Monday, November 30, 2015 11:45 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zwoop@apache.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 30, 2015, at 1:55 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zwoop@apache.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Now that we agreed to use Github as a patch / review board, the question
> is: Where do we post comments? On the Jira, or the Github pull request? My
> preference is constantly using Jira, for two reasons
> >
> > 1) Our automated release notes refer to the Jira, it’d be a lot easier
> to track discussions in one place.
> >
> > 2) Sometimes (not always)  github pull requests are closed, and
> reopened, leaving a difficult trail to follow.
> >
> >
> > Thoughts or concerns? Note that this might change if/when we get to a
> unified ticket and code review system. My primary concern and goal now is
> that we have consistency here, i.e. one place to look for comments /
> discussion threads.
>
>
> Replying to myself, of course…
>
> There is a unidirectional “sync” of Github comment posts to Jira. So, if
> we did decide to make Github the canonical source of comments, the Jira
> will have that trail. The downside then is that whenever you use Jira tools
> for tasks such as release management, bug triaging etc., any comments made
> on those Jira’s are not copied over to Github.
>
>
>
> — Leif
>