It's how they are being logged in Jira. As part of doing a review after the cut-off date (today), I was planning on ensuring that new features are tagged correctly as new features... and that smaller changes and / or internal improvements are classified as such improvements.
To me, a new feature is something that you talk about to users / operators of the software. Improvements are something that are either (1) trivial or (2) internal code changes that don't effect the user. The classification should help with release notes as well. I'd consider them equal for now, since I'm not sure that everything is correctly classified yet. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Sudha Ponnaganti <sudha.ponnaga...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi Chip/Alex, > > I see that release plan has tables with feature list and improvement list. > Why they are categorized like that?? > Are there any technical reasons to separate those lists or is it just how > people logged them in JIRA?? > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+4.1+Release > > > Thanks > /sudha
