+1. Would it help if we made the release notes field mandatory for marking the jira closed ? RegardsSrikanth Sundarrajan
> From: ajayyad...@apache.org > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:35:50 +0000 > Subject: Democratizing Release Notes > To: dev@falcon.apache.org > > 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
