Hi, I just filed HIVE-1882 which proposes removing CHANGES.txt from the Hive build. I think the following points support this change:
* It's a headache to maintain. * It contains a lot of errors. * It's redundant since this information is available in JIRA and via source control. * The RELEASE_NOTES.txt file contains the same information auto-generated using JIRA. We should update this file as part of the release process instead of updating CHANGES.txt on every commit. I plan to bring this up at the contrib meeting on Tuesday, but wanted to mention it in advance so people have a chance to think about it. Thanks. Carl
