On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Not to derail the conversation, but if CHANGES.txt is making backports more > annoying, why don't we get rid of it? It seems like we should be able to > generate it via a JIRA query, and "git log" can also be used for a quick > check (way faster than svn log).
+1 As long as release notes and incompatible changes are recorded in each branch, we gain no accuracy by maintaining this manually. Commit messages that record the merge revisions instead of the change are similarly hateful. -C
