+1 Thanks, Andrew. This will avoid so many spurious conflicts when cherry-picking changes, and so much wasted time on commit.
best, Colin On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> wrote: > 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
