Hello everyone, Continuing on our effort to automating change log and release notes, I am happy to share with you that we now have the ability to automatically generate release notes through Apache Yetus.
*How does it work?* We have introduced a new field in JIRA - Release Notes. Every contributor needs to add release notes for their important / backward-incompatible changes / new features. Later, RMs can generate release notes using Apache Yetus. Many projects like Hadoop etc. have already been doing it this way. We have also been using Apache Yetus to generate the release notes *Why?* Generating release notes had been one tedious task which the RMs(Release Managers) had to do manually at the end of the release by going through all JIRAs and writing notes for them. Often, RM may not even be the best person to write release notes for the feature. *Note to Contributors* Please add release notes for any important / backward-incompatible changes / new features that you add. *Note to Committers* Please don't commit PRs for important / backward-incompatible changes / new features without release notes. I will update the "how to release" wiki with the steps for RMs, In the meantime, you can consult the documentation for Apache Yetus here <https://yetus.apache.org/documentation/0.3.0/> Regards Ajay Yadava
