In trying to understand why the nightly tarballs[1] are so much bigger than the ones for 1.6.x[2], I discovered it is because we've added significant content to notes/ on trunk (specifically notes/obliterate). Instead of trying to cherry-pick specific notes/ to include in the release tarballs, I'd like to propose that we just drop the folder entirely from our distribution artifacts. notes/ is something of a dumping ground, with content that is out-of-date, or pie-in-the-sky. While useful for developers, I don't think it has relevance to end-users, and hence the suggestion we remove it from our source distribution.
Thoughts? -Hyrum [1] http://people.apache.org/~hwright/svn/nightly/dist/ [2] http://people.apache.org/~hwright/svn/1.6.13/obstkuchen/
