Hadoop Developers,
As you know, we've added a release note field in Jira from which we
can build a reasonable set of user facing release notes. Candidates
for release notes are:
- incompatibilities
- features
- major or critical improvements
- major or critical bug fixes
Of the 207+ issues fixed in Hadoop 0.17, we have 68+ issues that fall
into the first 3 categories above. Of those 68, only 12 have release
notes filled in. Of those 12, only 2 are written in a user facing
way (ie. no additional knowledge of the issue needed, described the
impact, etc.)
IMHO, these 2 issues have exemplary release notes which I suggest you
read:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1986
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2410
Can assignee's of 0.17 issues please backfill (or fix existing)
release notes for their issues before we start a vote on 0.17 (next
week or two I hope)?
Thanks,
Nige
