[hibernate-dev] Changelog file in Hibernate ORM

[Sanne Grinovero]

I wouldn't stay awake at night because of that :) maybe only if the
file gets huge?
It's useful for people migrating, but since I doubt someone would
migrate from pre-1.0 (at least without expecting to rewrite it all),
that's why I suggested to keep from 3.0 onwards.

On 29 May 2015 at 12:16, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> 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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