[DERBY-4857] Utilize the SOAP API to fetch JIRA issue list for release notes generation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 10.7.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 10.7.1.1
• Component/s: Build tools
• Assignee: Kristian Waagan
• Reporter: Kristian Waagan
• Created: 20/Oct/10 13:45
• Updated: 30/Nov/10 09:25
• Resolved: 11/Nov/10 09:18

Description

Somewhat simplified, the release manager (RM) must currently perform the following manual steps to feed the release note generate the data it needs:
a) Create manual JIRA filter to select issues addressed by the release.
b) Save the filter result to disk as XML.
c) Write/modify the XML parser to be able to parse the report.
d) Determine and record all JIRA release note attachment ids for the issues requiring a release note.

By using the current version of the SOAP API (3.13.5), steps (b) to (d) can be removed.