[ARROW-17680] [Dev] More descriptive error output in merge script

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Developer Tools
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32920
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nicola Crane
• Created: 12/Sep/22 09:34
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:52

Description

I've just updated to the newer version of the merge script, and something is going wrong; however, the error message I'm getting isn't super-helpful for working out what's happened:

  File "/home/nic2/arrow_for_merging_prs_only/dev/merge_arrow_pr.py", line 539, in connect_jira
    return jira.client.JIRA(options={'server': JIRA_API_BASE},
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'token_auth'

Is there some object we could just dump the output of, in cases of failure, so it provides a few more hints to work out what's gone wrong?