Yes we should. I'll add a section for setting the various version fields, and update the document to reflect CHANGES.txt handling from the last discussion.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Hitesh Shah <hit...@apache.org> wrote: > Should we document all of these in the Committer Guide on wiki? > > — Hitesh > > On Sep 1, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Siddharth Seth <ss...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Contrary to what I had mentioned in the previous thread about > CHANGES.txt, > > it should be sufficient to set the target version to the oldest version > to > > which a jira is targeted. This should be sufficient since a patch does > have > > to go into master before it goes into an older branch. > > > > Setting multiple versions for the target version is problematic when > making > > a release, since the bulk jira operation will end up overwriting the > entire > > target field, which causes older versions to be lost. > > > > The Fix version on the other hand can contain all the versions to which > it > > is committed. > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > Thanks > > - Sid > >
