[hibernate-dev] Changelog file in Hibernate ORM

[Steve Ebersole]

So it makes sense to you that the changelog for 5.0 includes entries for
pre 1.0?

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> I'm +1 especially to keep the changelog.txt file both maintained and
> included.
>
> About pruning older content: I'd keep the past few years at least, for
> sake of who's finally upgrading.
> Maybe since version 3.0 onwards? Or just keep it all :)
>
> On 29 May 2015 at 12:05, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> > 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 at hibernate.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 29 May 2015 at 08:15, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On 28 May 2015, at 10:42, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org>
> >> >> 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?
> >>
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