: I tested relasedocmaker and it digs up all the JIRA issues marked as RESOLVED for the version and creates two files. : CHANGELOG.md simply lists all issues under headings IMPROVEMENTS, BUG FIXES etc : One problem I found with how the CHANGELOG works is that it adds all issues having the version in fixVersion, even if the feature : was already released in an earlier version. That is because of the way we use JIRA fixVersion, adding both e.g. "master (9.0)" and "8.2" : at the same time, even if we know that 8.2 is the version the feature will be released. If we stop always adding "master" to fixVersion : but strive to keep it a list of version the feature/bugfix is FIRST introduced, then this tool will do the correct job.
The reason we (should always) track every fixVersion based on where things are commited & backported is because of how important it is from the stand point of knowing when exactly something was fixed, compared to where it might have *needed* to be fixed. A bug might be found just before the 8.1.0 release that affect 7.7.0, 8.0.0, and the current branch_8x but not master because the underlying functionality was deprecated in 8x & removed from master -- the fix would be committed to branch_8x and backported to branch_8_0 and branch_7_7 for inclusion in 7.7.1 -- but maybe no one has bothered with w/an 8.0.1, and meanwhile branch_8_1 is forked from branch_8x and already has the fix. if we *only* record fixVersion=7.7.1, then that can misslead people who don't know the timing/history of the jira into thinking that if it was fixed in 7.7.y then maybe/probably/who-knows-if it is issue in 8.x.y. Having fixVersion=7.7.1,8.0.1,8.1.0 helps communicate several things... * if you are using 7.y.x lower then 7.7.1 you might be affected by this * if you are using 8.0.y lower then 8.0.1 you might be affected by this - since you can see in jira that 8.0.1 is unreleased: - if/when 8.0.1 is released, it will include this fix * if you are using 8.x.y lower then 8.1.0 then you might be affected by this If we *only* use fixVersion="lowest version released" it wouldn't help people answer the question "Does this bug exist in 8.w.v if all i know is that the _first_ version it was fixed in was 7.x.y?" ...not to mention the complexity involved in _older_ bug fixe releases happening *after* more recent feature releases with the same fix (ie: 7.7.1 being released after 8.1.0. (a more rigorous use of the "affectsVersion", eg: affectsVersion="7.7.0,7.7.1,...,7.7.0,8.0.0", can help mitigate *some* of this confusion -- by implying that the issue does *not* affect 8.1.0 since it isn't listed there -- but that's a lot more tedious to maintain then just ensuring that you add a fixVersion for every place you commit) -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org