[hibernate-dev] Changelog file in Hibernate ORM

[andrea boriero]

I would mantain all 5.x in the same changelog file and may be the previous
one.

On 29 May 2015 at 12:32, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:

> 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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