On Apr 17, 2008, at 2:23 AM, Steve Loughran wrote:
Nigel Daley wrote:
Hadoop Developers,
As you know, we've added a release note field in Jira from which
we can build a reasonable set of user facing release notes.
Candidates for release notes are:
- incompatibilities
- features
- major or critical improvements
- major or critical bug fixes
Of the 207+ issues fixed in Hadoop 0.17, we have 68+ issues that
fall into the first 3 categories above. Of those 68, only 12 have
release notes filled in. Of those 12, only 2 are written in a
user facing way (ie. no additional knowledge of the issue needed,
described the impact, etc.)
Interesting. In the SmartFrog JIRA we have a compatibility field
which gives a list of options as to how a change breaks
compatibility: none/unknown/new feature/incompatible at source/
incompatible at deployment descriptor/breaks builds & tests
with a scale of incompatibility you can present the changes in a
way that matters to end users (i.e. list the ones that are
incompatible first) rather than just the major/minor levels which
are just a metric of how important the team thought the change was.
Having that and release notes would be very good.
Very interesting.
How do you get the release notes from jira? Is that automated?
It will be automated.
Nige
