for example, this is roughly what HBase 2.4.7 would look like: https://gist.github.com/busbey/b5a849626bc4fcc2cbdd18f56c8d2807#file-apache-hbase-2-4-7-releasenotes-md
(but the url would be to the rel/2.4.7 tag on github) On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 1:33 PM Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > let's just start pointing at the release notes? for any given release that > should be where we as a community have spent the most effort crafting a > message for our downstream folks. > > preferably rendered. Could we start putting the generated release note > that just the part relevant to the specific patch release into the GitHub > release tag's release note? IIRC that will render markdown and is readable > without logging in. We could integrate populating it via the GitHub API > into the release tooling. > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:39 AM Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected]> 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) <[email protected]> >> > 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 <[email protected]> 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) < >> [email protected]> >> > > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> >
