The just released uima-wide parent pom (version 8) specifies the Maven Changes Plugin at version 2.9, which works (sort of) with our Jira.
There are 2 problems. One of these is https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCHANGES-325 and there's a patch (which I supplied) that you can apply. I recommend release managers build this plugin from source after applying the patch, and "install" it into your .m2 repository, in order to have a (mostly) correct jira changes report generated. The 2nd problem (which is unresolved at the moment, and no one is taking a look): the "title" line in the generated report has a part which I think is supposed to list the Jira version, but instead, it has literally "${project.version}". I couldn't figure out what was going wrong here. I asked about this on the maven-users list, but there's been no response (so far). I've just sent a note on this to the maven developers list.... -Marshall
