On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/20/14, 9:09 AM, Keith Turner wrote: > >> footnote reference to SCM/JIRA for the full list of changes. But, is >>> >there another role the CHANGES file is expected to play which I'm >>> >overlooking? >>> > >>> >> I think one value of whats currently in the CHANGES file is that by >> scanning it you may find out about something thats very important to you. >> No one else thought it was important and it was not included in the nice >> user friendly summary. >> >> >> > I have definitely had that happen to me perusing the HDFS CHANGES file > before. That's why I'm a fan of keeping a "complete" CHANGES file. > Me too. I can't think of a good reason to make choosing between user friendly release notes and the exhaustive list from jira an XOR. The only argument that slightly concerned me was Christophers predicition of a huge changes file (but it would compress nicely). I think thats a bridge we could cross later and make decisions about like ageing off older data. We do not need to make decisions about that now.
