Draft proposal: JEP 2.0

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Sun Apr 13 01:42:40 UTC 2014


On 04/09/2014 09:41 AM, Bob Vandette wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I like the idea of using JIRA for the JEP process but ...
>
> Why are you proposing to continue supporting some of the JEP content in Mercurial
> form rather than using the description field in JBS and providing a template for this area
> of the JIRA entry?  We've done this successfully for internal project tracking.
>
> If it's for format validation, you might be able to do this as part of the workflow
> process as you change states and not have to maintain information in two places.
>
> Bob.

While the current JEP pages "look nice", the current system seems like 
Yet Another
Ad-hoc System, which now seems unnecessary given that we have a standard
issue tracking system that is designed to be capable of supporting stuff 
like this.

So, another +1 on leveraging standard infrastructure, and keeping all 
the info
all together in one place.

-- Jon



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