I renamed it to .md to make it a markdown file so that each issue could link to jira. It makes it look nicer on GitHub, and then it makes it easier to copy/paste the generated HTML into an email or blog post.
On 26 February 2017 at 16:57, Apache <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > Matt, > > I am wondering why you renamed RELEASE-NOTES.txt to RELEASE-NOTES.md? > This file is generated by maven as part of preparing for the release. The > output is a text file, not markdown. Furthermore, it caused the release to > fail since it is included by name in the distribution zip files and that > name wasn’t changed. > > I renamed it back to RELEASE-NOTES.txt. > > Ralph > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
