Sample Release Notice Email Format

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017
1 min read

This is an example of the Release notices that component leads should send whenever a Feature or Patch version of their components are released.  It's a repetition of the information that should be in the HISTORY.textile and posted to github before the gem is released.

Example Release Notice

[Subject] Patch release for hydra-head 2011-12-06

This is a weekly release of the hydra-head gem.

PATCH hydra-head-3.1.1

* HYDRA-703 Hull::BlacklightHelperBehavior#render_selected_facet_value is not html_safe

* HYDRA-689 LOGIN PAGE doesn't display error messages

For a complete release history, see https://github.com/projecthydra/hydra-head/blob/master/HISTORY.textile

Reminder: we use semantic versioning with all of our components.