I find it surprising that our announcements point people at something that
requires a login. It seems not very “open” or “inviting”.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 07:26 Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote:

> We have historically linked to the Jira Version page because it provides a
> starting point on issue navigation that we don't get elsewhere. Plenty of
> interactions with our issue tracker require a login. Why is that threshold
> not acceptable here? I think we should just note that a login with
> low-friction signup is required. Though I guess we will need to validate
> that it's still straightforward to create a jira account.
>
> The changelog and release notes for the release are both available on
> downloads.a.o if we want to link to something available without a login
> rather than just mentioning them. If we're going to change what we'd link
> to I'd rather one of those than jira at all.
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 5:55 AM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > At least for me I haven't typed it up in the past...
> >
> > I'm not sure whether you need to set up a template manually first...
> >
> > Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@cloudera.com.invalid> 于2021年10月26日周二 下午5:48写道:
> >
> > > Duo,
> > > Just out of curiosity, is this release note in the JIRA populated
> > > automatically? Or someone typed it up?
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 4:25 PM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think this is what we should link in the announcement?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12350545
> > > >
> > > > We should link the release note, not the page where we can generate
> the
> > > > release note...
> > > >
> > > > Just my thoughts. Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@apache.org> 于2021年10月26日周二 上午1:19写道:
> > > >
> > > > > Heya,
> > > > >
> > > > > The link we include in our announcement emails is only accessible
> for
> > > > > people who are logged into JIRA. Seems like bad form.
> > > > >
> > > > > I.e.,
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/HBASE/versions/12350545
> > > > >
> > > > > I doubt this is by design on our part. I wonder if JIRA has always
> > been
> > > > > configured this way, or if it's an (un)intentional change on the
> part
> > > of
> > > > > Infra.
> > > > >
> > > > > Should we instead link to something else?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Nick
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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