On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe we should loosen the permissions on Avro's Jira so that any user can > assign an issue? That would make things a bit simpler. I doubt we'd see > much if any abuse. > locking down issue assigning happened ASF jira wide due to spammer abuse. we could probably due with better documenting how folks gain the ability to assign themselves issues. I presume it's "email dev@avro and ask for the ability". At the very least I've been granting it to anyone who asks. > > Also, it's probably time to remove CHANGES.txt and just use Jira to > generate release notes. Agreed? > > Yeah that'd be great. The Apache Yetus project makes a tool called Release Doc Maker that will generate markdown for us. http://yetus.apache.org/documentation/0.7.0/releasedocmaker/ It's been working for the Hadoop project for ages. HBase has started moving to it and it's gone well. -- busbey
