[jira] [Commented] (JENA-896) Remove ReleaseNotes.txt from releases

["Andy Seaborne (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-896?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14361864#comment-14361864 ] 

Andy Seaborne commented on JENA-896:
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The referenced email only suggests removing them.

While it would be ideal to have a perfect history of changes for each release, that information is already available in JIRA, which provides custom sorting and searching, including focusing in on particular components of interest.

Maintaining the ReleaseNotes (for modules that have them) is clearly not something that is happening. It duplicates JIRA.

Any increase in work on the release process should have a high barrier for inclusion in the process steps.  We already have the announcement message so I think it would be best to invest time on the announcement message as a communication channel.


> Remove ReleaseNotes.txt from releases
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JENA-896
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-896
>             Project: Apache Jena
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Documentation, Web site
>    Affects Versions: Jena 2.13.0
>            Reporter: Stian Soiland-Reyes
>
> The [release notes of 2.13.0 RC1|https://github.com/apache/jena/blob/ecaa41eefdcb79f16bd4b9525b89309f8282ca47/jena-core/ReleaseNotes.txt] were not updated to mention 2.13.0
> It was [suggested for future releases|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jena-dev/201503.mbox/%3C54FD8D9D.8020206%40apache.org%3E] to remove these ReleaseNotes from the releases as they require manual updating - and instead include a fixed URL to page(s) that describes the change log. This may be an auto-generated page in Jira or a page on the website, with links to Jira.  



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