I'm part of a team trying to analyse the effects of refactoring on large codebases. In this regard, we are analysing the Wildlfy project and the JIRA tickets.

We would like to know:

i) Do you follow a particular conventions for changes that are refactorings: e.g. special ticket type or commit messages

ii) Are there specific tickets that are examples of large-scale refactorings that were done with the intention of improving maintainability.

Would appreciate any pointers in this regard :)

Thank you in advance,

Miles