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 <st...@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 <sa...@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 <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 > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
