Myrna van Lunteren wrote:
Hi Rick,
I struggled a lot with trying to get the xml reports to only show the
rows I wanted...
How do you obtain the reports?
Thx,
Myrna
Hi Myrna,
I don't have a very happy answer to this question. Maybe Andrew can give
better pointers here.
In the bad old days of 10.2, I started out with an xml report based on a
JIRA query. I then went through that report and identified issues which
I thought didn't deserve mentioning in the release notes. I put those
ids in a database. In the database, I also stored the ids of all issues
which I had already documented in the release notes. Then, when I
generated new versions of the xml report, I ran a program which only
printed out the issues which were not excluded and which were not
documented already. Pretty crude.
There may be enough information in JIRA to model our idea of what issues
should be included and what issues should be excluded. But even if there
is, it's not clear to me that the JIRA interface is rich enough to
express the query you want--it is difficult to express NOTs and ANDs.
The simplest solution might be to add yet another toggle to our JIRA:
ExcludeFromReleaseNotes. The release manager would have to go through
all of the issues and turn on this toggle for the excludable issues. The
ReleaseNotesGenerator could be trained to throw away those
issues--that's a half hour of work which I'll gladly do if we decide to
go down this path.
I may have sufficient karma to add that toggle if the community thinks
it's a good idea. Let me know how I can be helpful.
Regards,
-Rick
