+1, It makes sense to have a single jira per dependency for a release and
if the same dependency is updated more than once just update the original
Jira. Some of our releases go on for a while before being released so it's
not uncommon to have that happen.

Chris

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Justin
>
> Yes, that's right and I agree it's confusing.
>
> Instead of creating a new Jira, I propose to reopen an existing Jira
> if not yet release and update it.
> So, yes, let's do that now. +1 with your proposal.
>
> On another note, I think we should also leverage dependabot or
> renovatebot for that. I have an existing PR about that.
>
> Regards
> JB
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM Justin Bertram <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I was recently looking through all the Jiras resolved for Classic 6.2.0
> > [1]. I noticed that out of the 200 issues, 122 of them were for
> dependency
> > upgrades [2] and out of those 122 issues only 46 dependencies were
> actually
> > impacted. In other words, there are multiple issues for upgrading the
> same
> > dependency. For example, there are ten different issues for upgrading
> Camel
> > [3], ten for Jackson [4], twelve for Spring [5], etc. Furthermore,
> there's
> > no links between any of the issues for the same dependency.
> >
> > I think this is likely to confuse users since when they come across one
> of
> > these intermediate issues they will get the impression that the relevant
> > release has that dependency version when, in fact, it doesn't. It also
> > bloats the release notes and makes them difficult to understand. It's not
> > clear which version of a particular dependency is actually in the
> release.
> >
> > If possible, I think it would be better to have a single issue per
> > dependency and simply modify it as new dependencies are released during
> > development.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AMQ%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%206.2.0
> > [2]
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AMQ%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20%22Dependency%20upgrade%22%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%206.2.0
> > [3]
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AMQ%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20%22Dependency%20upgrade%22%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%206.2.0%20AND%20text%20~%20%22Camel%22%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC
> > [4]
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AMQ%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20%22Dependency%20upgrade%22%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%206.2.0%20AND%20text%20~%20%22jackson%22%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC
> > [5]
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AMQ%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20%22Dependency%20upgrade%22%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%206.2.0%20AND%20text%20~%20%22spring%22%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC
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