Drop java-support's release-notes.txt ? (was: Add voting to release process)

[Ian Young]

> On 27 Jan 2015, at 06:16, Tom Zeller <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>> On 1/26/15, 9:14 PM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was planning to start work on the release notes for 3.1 shortly so I
>>> didn't forget what to note.
>> 
>> I do *not* want to reproduce the fixlist inside
>> the page, nor follow the V2 practice of updating a doc file with the issue
>> list every time a fix is made. That's superfluous and wasted effort when
>> the search filter does it for you.
> 
> For whatever silly reason, I've maintained updating java-support's
> doc/RELEASE-NOTES.txt. Can we stop that and just point to JIRA ?

The way I remember the discussion we decided NOT to point to JIRA for release notes. I remember repeatedly and emphatically asserting that JIRA's "release notes as a list of resolved issues" is pretty useless.

What Scott is doing with the IdP is, to my mind, ideal:

   https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/ReleaseNotes

Just my tuppence. Maybe other people remember the conversation differently.

    -- Ian




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