Hi all, With the inclusion of HADOOP-12651 going back to branch-2.8, CHANGES.txt and release notes are now generated by Yetus. I've gone ahead and deleted the manually updated CHANGES.txt from trunk, branch-2, and branch-2.8 (HADOOP-11792). Many thanks to Allen for the releasedocmaker.py rewrite, and the Yetus integration.
I'll go ahead and update the HowToCommit and HowToRelease wiki pages, but at a high-level, this means we no longer need to edit CHANGES.txt on new commit, streamlining our commit process. CHANGES.txt updates will still be necessary for backports to older release lines like 2.6.x and 2.7.x. Happy committing! Best, Andrew
