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During the patch submission process, the kafka-patch-review.py prompts you for your JIRA user name and password that you use for https://issues.apache.org/jira JIRA instance. The tools tool uses that information to update the JIRA with the new patch. However, if you do not like being prompted each time you submit the patch, you can configure your JIRA user name and password be setup in a file named jira.ini under your home directory. The content of such a file would look like:
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