There was some discussion in IRC about removing the CHANGES file. It is generally disliked and we have JIRA release notes that serve a similar purpose. Here is an example of JIRA release notes for 6.0.0:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310963&version=12324897 We also have `git log` which can be displayed in a way decent enough to stand in for the CHANGES file. It was pointed out that we should still include something in the tarballs that had the list of changes for posterity in case JIRA or git history is ever lost. It was then proposed that we simply add a step to `make rel` that will take the git shortlog and include it in a file called CHANGES that only exists in the tarballs. Here is an open JIRA issue for that effort: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-3644 How does everyone feel about this idea? Is anyone out there using the CHANGES file?
