At some point we dropped generating the release notes, mainly because it was very difficult to take the generated HTML from jira and convert it into docbook, just so that we could generate the html. As a result we just dropped the generation of release notes via docbook and pull the html directly into the generated docs, see
Updating the release branch - item 4 here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/HowToRelease Chris I added you to cwiki permissions, have at it. Good catch on "committing changes", I looked around but missed that. Thanks. Patrick On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Chris Nauroth <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick, thank you for this clarification. > > Specifically related to the ZOOKEEPER-2364 bug that I filed, is there > something unique going on with the release notes? I found that > src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/releasenotes.xml was deleted from > branch-3.5 in preparation for the 3.5.0 release, and modifications for > subsequent releases appear to have been applied directly to > docs/releasenotes.html. Should we be trying to restore an accurate > releasenotes.xml file, or was abandoning it intentional and instead we > need to look at fixing "ant docs" so that it doesn't fail due to the lack > of that file? > > Once all of this settles, I'd be happy to update the "Committing Changes" > wiki page if someone wants to grant edit rights to my account. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/Committing+changes > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/~cnauroth > > > --Chris Nauroth > > > > > On 2/8/16, 5:38 PM, "Patrick Hunt" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Hi folks, just a reminder for committers, if you're committing doc >>changes to a branch you need to re-generate the toplevel docs for that >>branch and commit them to svn along with the patch. >> >>Patrick >> >
