Attention, release managers and release note smiths

[Rick Hillegas <Ri...@Sun.COM>]

I have clipped a patch to DERBY-2570. This is the first rev of a tool 
for generating the release notes from some JIRA reports and a 
templatized release description. I'm hoping this will be useful for 
building the 10.3 release notes. It would be great to get feedback 
soon--I'm going on vacation next week and there won't be a lot of time 
to sand this down after I get back.

Thanks,
-Rick

Re: Attention, release managers and release note smiths

[Rick Hillegas <Ri...@Sun.COM>]

Myrna van Lunteren wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Rick Hillegas <Ri...@sun.com> wrote:
>> I have clipped a patch to DERBY-2570. This is the first rev of a tool
>> for generating the release notes from some JIRA reports and a
>> templatized release description. I'm hoping this will be useful for
>> building the 10.3 release notes. It would be great to get feedback
>> soon--I'm going on vacation next week and there won't be a lot of time
>> to sand this down after I get back.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Rick
>>
> The one thing I realized is that everyone needs to go back to the
> issues that required release notes, rewrite them using the new
> template, and attach them to the appropriate JIRA issues as file
> 'releaseNote.html'...
>
> Myrna
Hi Myrna,

I fed the generator a list of issues marked "fix in 10.3" and "release 
note needed". The good news is that 5 issues already have release notes 
in the new format. The generator reported that the following issues need 
to have their notes converted:

genrelnotes:
[generateReleaseNotes] The following JIRA issues still need release notes:
[generateReleaseNotes]     DERBY-2430     setObject(int targetType, Blob 
source) and setObject(int targetType, Clob source) should disallow 
updates on all targetTypes except BLOB and CLOB respectively
[generateReleaseNotes]     DERBY-2108    Implement SSL/TLS communication 
between client and server
[generateReleaseNotes]     DERBY-1491    Provide ALTER TABLE 
functionality to change a column's default value
[generateReleaseNotes]     DERBY-1130    Client should not allow 
databaseName to be set with setConnectionAttributes
[generateReleaseNotes]     DERBY-729    Scalar time and date functions 
return 0 instead NULL when argument is NULL
[generateReleaseNotes]     DERBY-688    Enhancements to XML 
functionality to move toward XPath/XQuery support...
[generateReleaseNotes]     DERBY-415    sysinfo with -cp client option 
should not print error saying DB2 jar file and driver class are missing
[generateReleaseNotes]     DERBY-119    Add ALTER TABLE option to change 
column from NULL to NOT NULL

Regards,
-Rick

Re: Attention, release managers and release note smiths

[Myrna van Lunteren <m....@gmail.com>]

On 5/15/07, Rick Hillegas <Ri...@sun.com> wrote:
> I have clipped a patch to DERBY-2570. This is the first rev of a tool
> for generating the release notes from some JIRA reports and a
> templatized release description. I'm hoping this will be useful for
> building the 10.3 release notes. It would be great to get feedback
> soon--I'm going on vacation next week and there won't be a lot of time
> to sand this down after I get back.
>
> Thanks,
> -Rick
>
The one thing I realized is that everyone needs to go back to the
issues that required release notes, rewrite them using the new
template, and attach them to the appropriate JIRA issues as file
'releaseNote.html'...

Myrna