Yes, the idea would be to replace the CHANGES file with a link to JIRA in the release notes on the site where you download.
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Marc Reichman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been covered already, but the Jetbrains family of > products (IntelliJ, TeamCity, etc.) uses this mechanism for their detailed > release notes, linked right from their download pages: > https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TW/TeamCity+9.0.4+%28build+32407%29+Release+Notes > > Can the Accumulo JIRA be linked to in such a public way? If so that can take > care of most of the requirements, I'd wager. > > Marc > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. > >
