I am all for simplification. How about ----- start of text ----
Issue resolved: CASSANDRA- ---- - [ ] Jira ticket contains a description of: what is fixed, why it is needed, and what branches to apply it to. - [ ] Commits have been squashed to remove intermediate development commit messages. - [ ] Key commit messages start with the issue number (CASSANDRA-xxxx) either - [ ] this is a trivial documentation change. (e.g. fixes a typo) or: - [ ] Tests are included. - [ ] Documentation changes and/or updates are included. By submitting this pull request, I acknowledge that I am making a contribution to the Apache Software Foundation under the terms and conditions of the [Contributor's Agreement](https://www.apache.org/licenses/contributor-agreements.html). See the [Apache Cassandra "Contributing to Cassandra" guide](https://cassandra.apache.org/_/development/index.html) and/or the [Apache Cassandra "Working on Documentation" guide](https://cassandra.apache.org/_/development/documentation.html) ---- end of text ---- On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 8:42 AM Erick Ramirez <erickramire...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 this is a great idea. But personally, I'm not too fussed about the > level of detail that is in the template -- what is important is that > contributors are reminded that there needs to be a ticket associated with > contributions. Without being too prescriptive, aspiring contributors should > really familiarise themselves with how to contribute[1] so they would know > to search existing tickets first to avoid things like duplication. > > Additionally, I personally prefer details about a contribution to be > documented in a ticket rather than a PR because information stored in > tickets are more persistent. Having said that, it doesn't hurt to have the > details included in the PR as long as it is in the ticket too. Cheers! > >>