Writing Release Notes for Your Software: How to Get it Right

Published: Oct 8, 2023

Release note is important. However, there is a lack of tutorials or widely acknowledged standards about how to produce a release note. Without “the right way,” release notes may cause all kinds of issues. In this article, we will provide an FAQ-style introduction on how to produce the “right” release note for your users, based on our recent research on ~1000 real release note issues in GitHub project. This is still a preliminary draft, so if you have any suggestions or critiques, feel free to comment below!

One paper accepted by ESEC/FSE 2023!

Published: Jul 28, 2023

Wenxin’s study on project sustainability prediction is accepted by ESEC/FSE 2023. Congratulations to Wenxin!

Two papers accepted by ASE 2023!

Published: Jul 18, 2023

Wenxin’s study on personalized good first issue (GFI) recommendation and Weiwei’s study on license incompatibility in the PyPI ecosystem are accepted by ASE 2023. Congratulations to Wenxin and Weiwei!

Chao's MSR paper on AutoML won 2023 ACM SIGSOFT DistinguishedPaper Award

Published: May 12, 2023

Congratulations to Chao! Chao’s paper “AutoML from Software Engineering Perspective: Landscapes and Challenges” has been selected to receive an ACM SIGSOFT Distinquished Paper Award. This award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the field of software engineering and no more than 10 of accepted papers can receivethis award.

Runzhi's study on Dependabot accepted by TSE!

Published: May 10, 2023