We already have a ticket about dropping the release notes [1], and from past discussions [2] the consensus was to get rid of them so it seems the time has come :)
I am also in favor of dropping the errata.txt and .reviewboardrc files. Best, Stamatis [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-29090 [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/lp55cgbc9rbywzqgds4qww48dos16md4 On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM Ayush Saxena <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I noticed that we have a `RELEASE_NOTES.txt` file [1] checked into the > source repository, containing release notes for version 3.1.0. I’m not > sure there is much value in keeping this in the main repository at > this point, and I couldn’t find a clear reason for why it is still > there. > > Similarly, we have an `errata.txt` file [2] that appears to contain > some misaligned commit messages or other related historical > information. It doesn’t seem to be actively maintained, and I believe > keeping it around is mostly technical debt at this point. > > Finally, there is a `.reviewboardrc` file [3]. I’m not entirely sure > what purpose it serves today, but it appears to be related to Review > Board, which we moved away from quite some time ago. > > I propose that we remove all three of these files from the repository. > Please let me know if anyone has any objections or sees a reason to > keep any of them. > > -Ayush > > [1] https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.txt > [2] https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/errata.txt > [3] https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/.reviewboardrc
