Someone recently asked me if the release notes in JIRA could contain the files that have changed to fix that issue. Perfectly reasonable. However, the changelists (the $client uses Perforce) that fix the issue are not held in JIRA, instead, the plugin runs some p4 commands to get the changelists, and in turn each delta that is part of that changelist. It also does some nice stuff such as turning it in to link to p4web so you can click through to see the diffs. I considered re-using the code from the Perforce plugin, but…
I’m not a big fan of the release notes feature in jira. It’s too restrictive, although you can add templates for release notes, they’re available to everyone, and then they can’t be configured further, much. Everyone wants a different format, with different custom fields and so on. At the least the release note feature should support standard features of the query navigator. The feature of copying the HTML is a bit gimmicky IMHO.
