[LUCENE-10545] Allow Github PR link in CHANGES.html

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 10.0 (main), 9.2
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tomoko Uchida
• Created: 29/Apr/22 02:40
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 16:40
• Resolved: 02/May/22 14:32

Description

changes2html already supports links to Github PRs (LUCENE-5383), but the link is obsoleted so a small modification is needed to make it work again.

With this change, developers can directly link to their pull requests from CHANGES.txt, skipping creating Jira issues.

When the change made (2014) Github was still a "third party" to Apache and the integration had been on experimental status; the situation was changed - now GitHub is the first-class code hosting service for ASF projects. I think the requirement to open a Jira issue can be relaxed.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #854