From general-return-1201-apmail-hadoop-general-archive=hadoop.apache.org@hadoop.apache.org Fri Mar 12 23:24:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-general-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 46166 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2010 23:24:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 12 Mar 2010 23:24:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 37843 invoked by uid 500); 12 Mar 2010 23:24:13 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-general-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 37651 invoked by uid 500); 12 Mar 2010 23:24:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 37643 invoked by uid 99); 12 Mar 2010 23:24:12 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:24:12 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.216.178] (HELO mail-px0-f178.google.com) (209.85.216.178) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:24:07 +0000 Received: by pxi8 with SMTP id 8so1026612pxi.29 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:23:45 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.136.2 with SMTP id o2mr3123652wfn.189.1268436225258; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:23:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:23:45 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Commit Log Hacks ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6628 ) From: Eli Collins To: general@hadoop.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Hey Allen, CDH now includes Apache style release notes generated from the change log. Hope this helps. http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/testing/hadoop-0.20.1+169.56.releasenotes.h= tml Thanks, Eli On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: > > Seeing as how our two non-mainline distributions don't have real release > notes published, I've built two quick and dirty perl scripts (yes perl! F= ear > the ops people!) to take the commit log from CDH and the Yahoo! changes > files to spit out Confluence-style wiki output. =A0Changing it to other w= iki > output shouldn't be too difficult. > > 99% of the time, it gets it correct, but sometimes weirdness happens and = it > will take some manual cleaning to get it perfect. > > Anyway, I thought these might be handy for other folks to help compare an= d > contrast the differences between the two. =A0Now it is pretty easy to see= how > divergent a given distribution is from mainline, how hard it will be for > them to rebase onto mainline, etc. =A0Another interesting data point is > comparing the official bug description and the description in the commit > log.... > > Have fun. > > [Files are attached to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6628.= =A0I > might improve them as we go along, but who knows for sure. =A0] > >