[AVRO-2406] Remove manual updating of the VERSION.txt

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Fokko Driesprong
• Created: 27/May/19 09:30
• Updated: 16/Sep/22 10:23

Description

Right now we're still manually updating the VERSION.txt:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AVRO/How+To+Release

The process is cumbersome and error-prone. It would be better to automate the detection of this version. For example, generate this by extracting the version from the pom.xml.