On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:35:16AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 21 Apr 2004, at 03:47, David Blevins wrote:Maybe at some point later, I can find an easy way to use the cvs commit messages as the release notes.
Maybe we should install JIRA?
I've found on other projects that as issues come up, bugs are found or things need to be fixed, you enter an issue into JIRA using it as todo-list and bug tracker - then it generates auto-release notes for you...
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa? id=10242&report=changelog
That's really cool. Do you know if that report can be exported as xml?
Yes it can. I seem to remember someone styling it into a report.
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa? view=rss&pid=10242&fixfor=10243&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/ order=DESC&tempMax=25&reset=true
there are various reports - e.g. excel / bulk view etc.
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa? reset=true&pid=10242&fixfor=10243
plus then you get a road map to see what needs to be fixed before the next release...
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa? id=10242&report=roadmap
and you can tie in the issue ID to the CVS commit too if you want
We were doing exactly this on OpenEJB for some time.
Alan Cabrera wrote a few stylesheets to generate release notes, change log, and a release download page from an xml file. I got sick of creating the xml file by hand, so I wrote a program to screen-scrape our sf.net trackers and spit out the required xml.
That's how this page was created:
http://www.openejb.org/download.html
Once we got that all setup, we became very strict about using the trackers and putting the item ID in cvs commit messages (mostly to make sure people where using the tracker).
At some point later I also wrote a stylesheet to take the same xml file and spit out a list of items that were scheduled for the next release grouped by "open" and "closed" status.
Eventually sf.net changed their html enough to kill my screen-scraping and it all broke. It was really really nice while it lasted though.
I know the feeling. I'm now hooked on JIRA.
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
