How will you generate the list of contributors? Maintaining a changelog records that information at the point of commit.
Tom On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > I was planning to generate one at release time from the svn log - I'll open > a bug for that. > > A. > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >
