Hi Folks, I want to poll dev@ to see if we could make more accurate release notes by using the Jira ones
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10680&version=12333328 What do you think? Pro's makes explicit categories for improvements, bug fixes, etc. Con's takes away the personalization of multiple people being associated with an individual issue. My personal take is that the Jira notes look much more professional and are easier to interpret. I spoke with a number of Hadoop dev's @ApacheCon and learned about Yetus [0]. Yetus deals with exactly these types of issues. Making release notes much more user friendly and meaningful. Lewis [0] http://yetus.apache.org/ -- *Lewis*

