Hello all, As I am no longer associated with Hadoop,I request you to kindly remove me from the thread.
Thanks On 2 Apr 2015 06:40, "Allen Wittenauer" <a...@altiscale.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > (to: and reply-to: set to common-dev, cc: the rest of ‘em, to > concentrate the discussion) > > HADOOP-11731 has just been committed to *trunk*. This change does > two things: > > a) Removes dev-support/relnotes.py > b) Adds dev-support/releasedocmaker.py > > releasedocmaker.py works as a replacement for both the release > notes generation process as well as the CHANGES.TXT file. As documented in > BUILDING.TXT, running ‘mvn site -Preleasedocs’ will generate both the > release notes and a change log for that release in markdown format based > upon the FixVersion field in JIRA. During the creation of the website, > these files are then converted to HTML for use on the apache.org > website. The release notes file only contains incompatible changes and > JIRA that specifically have release notes. The changes file only has the > data for that release. > > This is obviously an incompatible change. There is a good chance > this code will not appear in branch-2. There might be some additional > fallout (esp since some folks write code against CHANGES.TXT) so I wanted > to give everyone a heads up. > > Also, I’ll be filing some additional JIRAs/doing some additional > work to: > > a) remove CHANGES.TXT from trunk > b) pre-populate x amount of Hadoop 2.x release data into trunk so that the > auto-indexer can pick it up > c) update the HowToRelease information with, well, how to do releases > based upon these new capabilities > > > Thanks!