On Sun, 25 May 2025 at 07:32, Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 24 May 2025 at 19:36, Slawomir Jaranowski
> <s.jaranow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Simple question - where oficial release notes should be?
> >
>
> What do you mean by official :)
>
> > Are there some policies or recommendations for ASF projects globally?
> >
>
> nope. every project use different way (text file, web page, gh releases 
> etc...)

so, we can agree on a way for Maven projects ...

>
> > There is not a clear explanation for me at the release procedure [1].
> > We have mentioned jira and now release notes on GitHub and also mail on
> > announcements mailing list.
> >
> > We also use a maven-changes-plugin (surefire) in a few projects, or
> > manually maintained pages (pmd, Maven core).
> >
>
> Personally, I don't like much surefire current in the website such
> https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/jira-changes.html
> (as there is no history and it's called "JIRA Report" which doesn't
> help much)
> I find GH release notes very handy (they can be generated
> automatically and will be in the dependabot PRs of consumers).
> But if we want them on the website, why not grab the data from GH releases?
> Currently, most of the plugin's website doesn't have any release notes
> or change history available.

What do you think about add a link to GitHub release notes like I did in m-pmd-p
https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/pull/214

Do we need to send announcements on ML?
Maybe we can introduce a GitHub action which sends an announcement to
ML after release notes will be published on GH ...


>
> > [1]
> > https://maven.apache.org/developers/release/maven-project-release-procedure.html
> >
> > --
> > Sławomir Jaranowski
>
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