[HADOOP-12768] Add a step in the release process to update the release year in Web UI footer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: site
• Component/s: documentation
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Xiao Chen
• Reporter: Yongjun Zhang
• Created: 03/Feb/16 20:12
• Updated: 26/Mar/16 00:35
• Resolved: 26/Mar/16 00:35

Description

Per the discussion in HDFS-9629, this jira is to propose adding a step in the release process ( https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease) to update the release year in Web UI footer, when creating RC for a release.

Issue Links

• depends upon: HDFS-9629 Update the footer of Web UI to show year 2016