Out of curiosity, what value does the changelog provide the Thrift community that the git history itself doesn't already contain?
The reason I ask is because in the Accumulo project, we stopped providing a changelog based on JIRA almost 5 years ago, because nobody in that community could provide a good justification for bothering with it (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3904). Nobody seems to have missed it since we stopped doing it. Instead, we have curated release notes that accompany the full git history, and which creates a narrative that's useful to users (https://accumulo.apache.org/release/accumulo-2.0.0/ for example). In Accumulo, we also decided to use GitHub issues for our ticketing, but that came *far* later. There's definitely some things JIRA does better, but I can't say that the generated CHANGELOG was ever one of them. So, I'm curious if this community has come to a different conclusion, that the changelog is invaluable. Has it? On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 6:34 AM Jens Geyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just want to remind about the fact that the changelog is created based on > the info we track in JIRA. Anything where there is only a PR merged and no > corresponding JIRA ticket will not appear in the changelog, unless someone > comes up with a tool to automate such a (highly cumbersome) task of > consolidating both change logs into one and remove all the duplicates. > > As geat as Github might be as a platform, the ticket system is lightyears > away from JIRA, so “simply switching everything” is certainly not what > anybody wants (both doing and using). So I would propose we stick to JIRA and > just do it right. > > Thank you & have a nice weekend, > JensG > > >
