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

[Tom Zeller]

> On Jan 27, 2015, at 3:50 AM, Ian Young <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 27 Jan 2015, at 06:16, Tom Zeller <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>   https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/ReleaseNotes
> 
> Just my tuppence. Maybe other people remember the conversation differently.

I very much remember and had you in mind. The shipped file is still not what you want though, it's pretty much a list of issues. During a release is not the best time for me to craft the thing, before would be better.

I should have said : "point to the wiki", not JIRA, my error.

I totally agree with you, but I would rather the release notes be on the wiki. I guess we would do that for every project ?