On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> If we're going to keep doing this, I'd like to have a really good >> reason for why we should (which is more convincing than a preference >> for grep over JIRA). I'm not coming up with such a reason. > > > > The reason I heard Josh give is accessibility for folks who use our software > but do not have access to our web pages, jira, nor our git repository. > > I think that's a legitimate benefit, but like Josh I don't know how much the > file effectively gets used in those spaces currently. >
True. That's a good point. But... even if that were true for some users (we're obviously lacking data on that), there's still the concern about its accuracy, and whether an issue number and summary is adequate to convey anything meaningful to those users. And, even if it were minimally meaningful and 100% accurate (which they aren't), does this benefit outweigh the burden? In any case, these individuals (presuming they exist) can likely just as easily generate a static up-to-date report, as needed, from JIRA at the time they download the release.
