We track that on JIRA already in the Fix Version field.  We also have the
git log for each branch.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:56 PM, bowen zhang <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't see a good alternative to track which jira goes into which
> branch.I would advise against removing release-log.txt
>
>       From: Robert Kanter <[email protected]>
>  To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>  Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 12:07 PM
>  Subject: [DISCUSS] get rid of release-log.txt?
>
> Hi all,
>
> Do we need to keep maintaining the release-log.txt?  It's an extra step for
> committing (that we sometimes mess up or forget) and I'm not sure how much
> benefit we get from using it given that we have the same information in
> JIRA and the git log.  Personally, it makes backporting patches to CDH more
> cumbersome because there's almost always a conflict in release-log.txt, so
> I pretty much ignore it.
>
> Hadoop has been discussing getting rid of their CHANGES.txt recently.  And
> while most people seem to agree it would be good to get rid of, they're
> having a lot of discussion on what to use instead.  I think our project is
> small enough compared to Hadoop that git and JIRA should be fine.
>
> What do others think?
>
>
> thanks
> - Robert
>
>
>
>

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