Re: RELEASE_NOTES contents - was: Re: [VOTE] Release Tuscany Maven Bundle Plugin RC2

[Raymond Feng <en...@gmail.com>]

Yes, having list of JIRAs seems to be ideal. For those changes that are 
checked in without a JIRA, we can also use the URL of the revision too if 
the commit log is self-descriptive.

Thanks,
Raymond

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From: "Simon Laws" <si...@googlemail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 7:31 AM
To: <de...@tuscany.apache.org>; <an...@apache.org>
Subject: RELEASE_NOTES contents - was: Re: [VOTE] Release Tuscany Maven 
Bundle Plugin RC2

> An observation (which doesn't affect my vote) on the current Maven
> Bundle plugin release is that the RELEASE_NOTES seem somewhat erratic
> in the amount of detail included from release to release. We should
> try and have a standard form for these so we know what to do.
> Especially as we are starting to have more separate releases.
>
> TUSCANY-???? - details about the change
>
> Seems simple and effective.
>
> Begs the question about whether we should always have a JIRA number to
> track changes we make. If people don't want to do that (I'm easy
> either way) then a simple NO-JIRA or similar would distinguish these
> changes so the reader doesn't have to guess one way or the other.
>
> Regards
>
> Simon