My feeling is that you get better user information by having a changes.xml file. Why? Because:
1/ To get the same level you need to pay extra attention to JIRA issue titles. You need to work on them, refactor them. 2/ Most of the time issues are entered by user who may not pay extra attention to clearly describe the issue in the title 3/ A title is usually short and it's harder to express clearly what the issue means in a short title vs a full description. The title is what the user will see when looking at a JIRA change report. 4/ Some JIRA issues are not meant to be seen by the end user and will need to be filtered out (like what you're doing with "Won't fix" ones when you remove the fix for version - which still doesn't seem quite right to me BTW ;-)). Ok, when reading this list I sound as if I'm against using JIRA... Absolutely not. I even use this approach myself on Cargo and other business projects. Nothing above is impossible. I'm just bringing to the attention of developers that it needs rigor and orderliness (and possibly more than when using a changes.xml approach). I think we need to have the JIRA plugin working to use this approach as end users will want to see the changes when looking at a plugin's web site. Also, before we can move to this approach we would also need to modify the announcement plugin to support the JIRA plugin. ATM it's using the changes.xml file only. Thanks -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: lundi 30 mai 2005 09:41 > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: svn commit: r179026 - /maven/maven- > 1/plugins/trunk/scm/xdocs/changes.xml > > I was going to ask opinions. I took to relying on JIRA for m2, and then > the m1 core, and as I was working on the SCM plugin I just forgot about > it. > > Is the JIRA plugin up to scratch? Can it be used for announcements? I'd > like to switch to that if we can... but I don't really have any > additional bandwidth to work on it. > > - Brett > > Vincent Massol wrote: > > >Brett, > > > >AFAIK we have always relied on changes.xml for all Maven plugins. I'm > >slightly worried to change the rule. Is this a test? Have we decided to > drop > >changes.xml, do we generate a change report using the JIRA plugin > instead? > > > >I'm worried because I think Maven developers are more used to using > >changes.xml than practicing IDD (Issue-Driven Development). > > > >But I do agree with the validity of the approach. > > > >I guess the only thing I'm asking is that we send an email to the dev > list > >explaining what is being done and what the new process should be (for > some > >plugins I guess, not for all, right?). > > > >Thanks > >-Vincent > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: lundi 30 mai 2005 09:03 > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: svn commit: r179026 - /maven/maven- > >>1/plugins/trunk/scm/xdocs/changes.xml > >> > >>Author: brett > >>Date: Mon May 30 00:03:19 2005 > >>New Revision: 179026 > >> > >>URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=179026&view=rev > >>Log: > >>remove changes, rely on JIRA > >> > >>Removed: > >> maven/maven-1/plugins/trunk/scm/xdocs/changes.xml > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________________ > ____ > >D�couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 1 Go d'espace de stockage pour vos > mails, photos et vid�os ! > >Cr�ez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________________ D�couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 1 Go d'espace de stockage pour vos mails, photos et vid�os ! Cr�ez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
