[LUCENE-1898] Decide if we should remove lines numbers from latest Changes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: core/other
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Mark Miller
• Reporter: Mark Miller
• Created: 07/Sep/09 23:25
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:08
• Resolved: 08/Sep/09 13:07

Description

As Lucene dev has grown, a new issue has arisen - many times, new changes invalidate old changes. A proper changes file should just list the changes from the last version, not document the dev life of the issues. Keeping changes in proper order now requires a lot of renumbering sometimes. The numbers have no real meaning and could be added to more rich versions (such as the html version) automatically if desired.

I think an * makes a good replacement myself. The issues already have ids that are stable, rather than the current, decorational numbers which are subject to change over a dev cycle.

I think we should replace the numbers with an asterix for the 2.9 section and going forward (ie 4. becomes *).

If we don't get consensus very quickly, this issue won't block.