Re: [hibernate-dev] Changelog file in Hibernate ORM

I'm really not sure what y'all are +1'ing Emmanuel and Sanne. You want to keep a massive changelog.txt containing all history forever? On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > > On 29 May 2015 at 08:15, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > > > >> On 28 May 2015, at 10:42, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy(a)hibernate.org&gt; > >> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:01:51PM -0400, Brett Meyer wrote: > >>> +1 from me. Although, on the other hand, do we really need to keep > >>> maintaining that to begin with? I guess I never thought simply having users > >>> go to the JIRA release notes was a big deal. Just my $.02. > >> > >> Same for me on both counts, the proposed handling of changelog.txt as > >> well as Brett's comment regarding the usefulness of this file altogether. > > > > A more frequent than I thought usage of changelog vs JIRA is a mix of > > Ctrl+F + quick scan to know what has changed in a library or know what is > > affecting me. JIRA is not the most intuitive UI in the universe. With allt > > he bug statuses, the various intermediary releases to select etc, nothing > > beats changelog.txt. > > +1 > - JIRA's UI is not too bad but let's remember that while we use it > since years, others might not feel comfortable with it > - many of those receiving our "dist" package might not have internet > access at all > - the dist packages is long term archived, like we include sources it > should contain a snapshot of all state. I like JIRA but who knows how > long it will be there? > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev