Re: Proposal to Use Jira Release Notes within CHANGES.txt

[Sebastian Nagel <wa...@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

but this would imply that fixes/improvements/etc. are _not_ added to CHANGES.txt
anymore when changes are committed, right?

We need to clarify this to get consistent change logs.

Thanks,
Sebastian

On 05/17/2016 06:55 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I want to poll dev@ to see if we could make more accurate release notes by using the Jira ones
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10680&version=12333328
> 
> What do you think?
> Pro's makes explicit categories for improvements, bug fixes, etc.
> Con's takes away the personalization of multiple people being associated with an individual issue.
> 
> My personal take is that the Jira notes look much more professional and are easier to interpret.
> I spoke with a number of Hadoop dev's @ApacheCon and learned about Yetus [0]. Yetus deals with
> exactly these types of issues. Making release notes much more user friendly and meaningful.
> Lewis
> 
> [0] http://yetus.apache.org/
> 
> -- 
> /Lewis/