We dropped it for Mahout and did like in the link below, but one thing
I don't like about it is it gets harder to give credit to (and
identify) those who chipped in, but maybe aren't listed as the
Reporter/Assignee on the issue. For example, it is often the case
that someone reports, someone else generates the patch, and yet
another person commits it.
On Dec 14, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote:
Hi,
We use the CHANGES.txt file to record all the issues that have been
fixed in the codebase. However, the same information (and much more)
is already conveniently accessible in Jira, see for example [1] for
the 0.2 release. Would anyone mind if we just dropped the CHANGES.txt
file?
Alternatively we could repurpose it as a higher level release notes
file that records more substantial changes in more detail. For example
instead of just one-liners with just the bug titles, we could for
example include a paragraph or so for each notable API or
configuration change and just refer to Jira for the less notable
changes.
[1]
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310631&styleName=Html&version=12312902
BR,
Jukka Zitting
