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!
