I'm fine with dropping this step. I can't help but bring it up again, shouldn't we drop the CHANGES.txt altogether?
Get Outlook On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:16 PM -0800, "Andrew Wang" <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> wrote: Hi all, I wanted to ask a release-related question. Right now, the RC tarball we vote on is not the same as the released tarball. This is because one of the publishing steps is to edit CHANGES.txt to include the release date and rebuild: https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease I don't like this mismatch, and it also adds additional overhead to the RM process. Release dates can also easily be found via the website. Would anyone object if we dropped this step from the HowToRelease process? Thanks, Andrew
