I did some cleanup.

Unfortunately, in some cases I don’t have enough permissions to resolve the 
issues or change the fix version.

I guess that to have the right permission I would need to be a committer, right?

Cheers,
Roberto

> On 29 Aug 2018, at 10:10, Roberto Cortez <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Thank you for your detailed email.
> 
> I’ll try to cleanup the JIRA issues based on your comments. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Roberto
> 
>> On 29 Aug 2018, at 04:21, David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> First, huge thank you for putting effort into ensuring the release notes are 
>> clear!  It's an under appreciated and usually thankless job.  However, 
>> communicating change on a new major version is critical and you just get one 
>> chance to build excitement.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 28, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Roberto Cortez <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, 
>>> 
>>> I’m trying to compile a list of things regarding the TomEE 8 Release. Right 
>>> now, this is our preview for the Release Notes from JIRA:
>>> 
>>> Bug
>> 
>> My memory is perhaps off, but I thought bugs came after New Features and 
>> Improvements on the generated release notes.  If they haven't in the past, 
>> we should likely do that for this one.
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2206] - Support for Enum injection in Microprofile JWT
>> 
>> I think this is an improvement vs bug. Perhaps even moved to tasks.
>> 
>> It's always been a stance of the project that unreleased features can't have 
>> bugs.  The intent of Bug is to communicate "you may have encountered this in 
>> a previous release and it is now fixed."  We want user's to be able to rely 
>> on this meaning.
>> 
>> It's natural to want to do it, but here's how I was able to convince myself 
>> it wasn't the right thing.  This usage of "bug" essentially means, "We 
>> noticed we weren't quite as done as we thought after the first commit of 
>> this feature.  It's never been released so you could never have encountered 
>> it in production and if you are alarmed by it or hopeful it solves a problem 
>> you had, that'd be silly of you.  It's just an ignorable note that we had to 
>> continue working on the feature longer than we thought, considerately mixed 
>> in with critical things that affect your daily life."
>> 
>> Once that thought entered my brain, it started changing neural pathways and 
>> I've been unable to get rid of it.
>> 
>> Joking aside, the result for users is that our release notes start to become 
>> a puzzle of potential misinformation.
>> 
>>> New Feature
>>>     • [TOMEE-2209] - MicroProfile 1.2 Support
>>>     • [TOMEE-2210] - MicroProfile 1.3 Support
>>>     • [TOMEE-2211] - MicroProfile 1.2 Support - Configuration 1.1
>>>     • [TOMEE-2212] - MicroProfile 1.2 Support - Fault Tolerance 1.0
>>>     • [TOMEE-2213] - MicroProfile 1.2 Support - JWT Propagation 1.0
>>>     • [TOMEE-2214] - MicroProfile 1.2 Support - Health Check 1.0
>>>     • [TOMEE-2215] - MicroProfile 1.2 Support - Metrics 1.0
>>>     • [TOMEE-2216] - MicroProfile 1.3 Support - Config 1.2
>>>     • [TOMEE-2217] - MicroProfile 1.3 Support - Metrics 1.1
>>>     • [TOMEE-2218] - MicroProfile 1.3 Support - Rest Client 1.0
>>>     • [TOMEE-2219] - MicroProfile 1.3 Support - Open API 1.0
>> 
>> We should yank the duplicate entries and just talk net-net.  People can 
>> assume Configuration 1.2 also includes 1.1 and 1.0.  If we completely 
>> implement MicroProfile 1.3, we can say that and not mention 1.2.  If we do 
>> not fully implement MicroProfile 1.3, the above didn't help me understand 
>> the status.
>> 
>> On the individual MicroProfile specifications, I would not refer to them as 
>> "MicroProfile 1.3 Support - Config 1.2", but simply "MicroProfile 
>> Configuration 1.2"
>> 
>> - It will search better in Google
>> 
>> - Some specs like Metrics 1.0 are in MP 1.2 and 1.3.  Showing it as "MP 1.2" 
>> could mean it was introduced in 1.2 and hasn't changed in 1.3.  It could 
>> mean Metrics is at 1.1 in MP 1.3, but we don't implement it yet.  It could 
>> mean Metrics was removed entirely in MP 1.3 so we only mention it as a MP 
>> 1.2 feature.  Unless you know enough not to need the release notes, you 
>> won't know which.
>> 
>> You're right in that we need a complete list of other new features, 
>> particularly our complete Java EE 8 status has to be listed here as well.
>> 
>>> Improvement
>>>     • [TOMEE-2195] - Compile Error in 
>>> /src/main/java/org/apache/openejb/config/AnnotationDeployer
>> 
>> We should probably move that one to tasks.
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2196] - keyStoreFile Property is Empty in Embedded Container
>>>     • [TOMEE-2221] - Use a Jsonb aware JAX-RS Provider
>>>     • [TOMEE-2222] - Enable create-tables for EclipseLink in Moviefun 
>>> example
>>>     • [TOMEE-2224] - update to apache-parent-21 for sha512
>> 
>> Picky I know, but we should change the case on this description to be 
>> consistent.  Also, it should be in upgrades technically.
>> 
>>> Task
>>>     • [TOMEE-2159] - TomEE8: JSF 2.3
>>>     • [TOMEE-2160] - TomEE8: Servlet 4.0
>> 
>> These two should go to new features. We should also yank the "TomEE8:" 
>> prefix.
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2174] - Nested parameters prevent EJB interceptor matching
>> 
>> This sounds like it should go to bug.
>> 
>>> Dependency upgrade
>>>     • [TOMEE-2171] - Upgrade to ActiveMQ 5.15.3
>>>     • [TOMEE-2178] - TomEE8: Update to MyFaces 2.3.0 release
>>>     • [TOMEE-2179] - tomcat 9.0.8
>>>     • [TOMEE-2180] - johnzon 1.1.7
>>>     • [TOMEE-2184] - MyFaces 2.3.1
>>>     • [TOMEE-2186] - Upgrade CXF to 3.2.4
>>>     • [TOMEE-2187] - Upgrade to XBean 4.9
>>>     • [TOMEE-2207] - Update Bouncy Castle to 1.60
>> 
>> We should update all the titles to be consistent in use (or non use) of 
>> "Upgrade" and how they are phrased.  Small detail, but shows we care.
>> 
>>> Additionally, we have the following issue list associated to TomEE 8, that 
>>> we need to update or decide if we need to do something with them for this 
>>> release:
>>>     • [TOMEE-2115] - TomEE-8 work
>> 
>> Commits with this JIRA might help us find work that should get its own JIRA 
>> and be mentioned in the release notes.  This item might possibly be a good 
>> candidate to retitle "Java EE 8 Support"
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2116] - Create javaee-api-8.0.0
>> 
>> Good one for the notes, but cleaned up.
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2117] - Rework ProcessObserverMethod integration
>>>     • [TOMEE-2139] - org.apache.tomee.jul.handler.rotating.ArchivingTest 
>>> broken in 2nd iteration
>>>     • [TOMEE-2140] - retire or fix arquillian-jpa example
>> 
>> We should figure out which way we went on this and update the title.
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2169] - Interceptor Bean injection does not work for EJBs
>> 
>> This sounds like a bug.
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2185] - Add MP-JWT support
>> 
>> We should yank the duplicates like "Add MP-JWT support" and mark them 
>> duplicates (or mark the newly created TOMEE-2213 as a duplicate of 
>> TOMEE-2185, then update the title of TOMEE-2185).
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2227] - upgrade CXF to 3.2.6 and tomcat to 9.0.11
>> 
>> We need to update the respective "Upgrade" issues and mark this as 
>> duplicate.  We should of course check the actual version of Tomcat and CXF 
>> to ensure it's accurate.  We've got on saying Tomcat 9.0.8 and other saying 
>> 9.0.11.  Let's hope it's 9.0.11 :)
>> 
>>>     • [TOMEE-2197] - openejb.xml <Deployments jar="..."/> does not work
>> 
>> 
>> This sounds like a bug and it sounds like an overstated bug that needs more 
>> context on the subject.
>> 
>>> Also, I guess that a lot of work was done without creating issues, so 
>>> everything that was done is not completely reflected in this list. We may 
>>> need to create some issues for that.
>> 
>> For a bit I attempted to be extremely diligent with making release note 
>> entries for old commits.  At one point I even hacked up a bit of code to 
>> help me review each individual commit.
>> 
>> - 
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomee/sandbox/release-tools/src/main/java/org/apache/openejb/tools/release/cmd/ReviewCommits.java
>> 
>> It was basically a shell that pulled all the svn commit logs in xml format 
>> and then looped you over each one and you could hit the V, A, N, or C keys 
>> to View the jira, Associate the commit with a jira, skip to the Next commit, 
>> or Create a jira for the commit and associate it.
>> 
>> I don't know what the heck I was on. :)  You definitely do not have to do 
>> that.
>> 
>> 
>> -David
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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