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 <st...@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 <sa...@hibernate.org> > wrote: >> >> On 29 May 2015 at 08:15, Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org> wrote: >> > >> >> On 28 May 2015, at 10:42, Hardy Ferentschik <ha...@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? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
