http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#notes-change-log
I noticed that commits are going in without a changelog. Just wanted to bring this to your collective attention - many projects (esp the hadoop related ones) include a "CHANGES.txt" file, e.g. from whirr: https://github.com/apache/whirr/blob/trunk/CHANGES.txt which highlights each commit as well as the author & committer. You might want to consider adding this, either that or generate as part of your release process. Patrick
