> On Dec 2, 2021, at 3:11 AM, Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello community,
>
> There is an open discussion on the Pulsar 2.9.0 release notes PR:
> https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/12425
In reading through the comments there I’m noticing these main themes.
(1) Wanting to standardize / rewrite PR titles. I don’t think that Developers
from around the globe are going to do that. If this needs to be done then a
volunteer who finds it important to them should review and update the PRs as
they are being created.
(2) The other issue on consistently marking PR ids and PIPs should be possible
with tooling.
I would suggest that the PMC needs to provide more support to whoever the RM
for a release is. RMs are perhaps the most valuable committers we have and
let’s try not to overburden them with extra tasks.
- POI uses automation and accepts whatever title are on the commits.
- For OpenOffice the RM doesn’t create the Release Notes, other members do into
English and then various community members translate them.
So, let’s not slow the process, but let’s go for eventual consistency.
Regards,
Dave
>
> I have created the block of release notes by downloading the list of PR
> using some GitHub API.
> Then I have manually classified:
> - News and Noteworthy: cool things in the Release
> - Breaking Changes: things you MUST know when you upgrade
> - Java Client, C++ Client, Python Client, Functions/Pulsar IO
>
> The goal is to provide useful information for people who want to upgrade
> Pulsar.
>
> My problems are:
> - PR titles are often badly written, but I don't want to fix all of them
> (typos, tenses of verbs, formatting)
> - There are more than 300 PRs, I don't want to classify them manually, I
> just highlighted the most important from my point of view
>
> If for 2.9.0 we still keep a list of PR, then I believe that the current
> status of the patch is good.
>
> If we want to do it another way, then I am now asking if there is someone
> who can volunteer in fixing and classifying the list of 300 PRs, it is a
> huge task.
>
> There is already much more work to do to get 2.9.0 completely released (and
> also PulsarAdapters) and we have to cut 2.9.1 as soon as possible due to a
> bad regression found in 2.9.0.
>
> Thanks
> Enrico
