Add NEWS file

I received a request for a NEWS file. That needs to be handled by Tony
and Brian, but for now, we can at least provide one that provides a link
to github so that users who expect NEWS files from their packages will
know where to go for release information.

Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa@datto.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Closes #7918

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 55cae89fab669341de4fe171faf0d3ffa532fc7c..f2cd574a9ce18d9308cc832d6ff359415e405262 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ endif
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
 EXTRA_DIST  = autogen.sh copy-builtin
 EXTRA_DIST += config/config.awk config/rpm.am config/deb.am config/tgz.am
-EXTRA_DIST += META AUTHORS COPYRIGHT LICENSE NOTICE README.md
+EXTRA_DIST += META AUTHORS COPYRIGHT LICENSE NEWS NOTICE README.md
 
 @CODE_COVERAGE_RULES@
 

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..bbdc2b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Descriptions of all releases can be found on github:
+
+https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases