https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/fae030ae021790d3127eb5d273141c2ecd1f82e5/RELEASE-NOTES.md
See how it formats it? Then you can copy/paste from that page into an email or blog post. On 26 February 2017 at 17:42, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > I don’t understand. What does the RELEASE-NOTES.txt file have to do with > Jira? What generated HTML? The text file is the result of running the > Maven command and is what I past into the email. > > Ralph > > On Feb 26, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I renamed it to .md to make it a markdown file so that each issue could > link to jira. It makes it look nicer on GitHub, and then it makes it easier > to copy/paste the generated HTML into an email or blog post. > > On 26 February 2017 at 16:57, Apache <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > >> Matt, >> >> I am wondering why you renamed RELEASE-NOTES.txt to RELEASE-NOTES.md? >> This file is generated by maven as part of preparing for the release. The >> output is a text file, not markdown. Furthermore, it caused the release to >> fail since it is included by name in the distribution zip files and that >> name wasn’t changed. >> >> I renamed it back to RELEASE-NOTES.txt. >> >> Ralph >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>