On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Kristian Waagan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A new process for generating the Derby release notes has now been put into > place. > The solution uses the JIRA SOAP-based API to pull down the required > information. I was going to rewrite [1], but thought I'd ask if we want to > backport the new solution first. > > Is the new solution worth backporting? (at least to 10.6, possibly to 10.5) > Do we want Rick to fully test it for 10.7.1.0 before doing so? > > If the new tool [2] turns out to be working well, the next improvement will > be to get rid of the manual step of creating a JIRA filter. This requires > that the ASF JIRA instance is upgraded to version 4.x. > > > Thanks, > -- > Kristian > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/ReleaseNoteProcess > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4857 > my 2c:
Definitely let Rick try it out first... Is the backport complicated? Or do you think it would be easy to do if/when we need to make another release on those older branches? If we do decide to put it back to 10.5 now I'd be willing to test drive a patch. Thank you for working on this - the old mechanism was definitely cumbersome and flaky and subject to sudden changes in JIRA. I think Rick revamped the release process docs, so there's an 'older releases' doc...If you can make the changes in a similar way it would make sense to rewrite that wiki. Myrna
