Nigel Daley wrote:
Hadoop Developers,
As you know, we've added a release note field in Jira from which we can
build a reasonable set of user facing release notes. Candidates for
release notes are:
- incompatibilities
- features
- major or critical improvements
- major or critical bug fixes
Of the 207+ issues fixed in Hadoop 0.17, we have 68+ issues that fall
into the first 3 categories above. Of those 68, only 12 have release
notes filled in. Of those 12, only 2 are written in a user facing way
(ie. no additional knowledge of the issue needed, described the impact,
etc.)
Interesting. In the SmartFrog JIRA we have a compatibility field which
gives a list of options as to how a change breaks compatibility:
none/unknown/new feature/incompatible at source/incompatible at
deployment descriptor/breaks builds & tests
with a scale of incompatibility you can present the changes in a way
that matters to end users (i.e. list the ones that are incompatible
first) rather than just the major/minor levels which are just a metric
of how important the team thought the change was. Having that and
release notes would be very good.
How do you get the release notes from jira? Is that automated?
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