How to notify other team members about important project changes (using SVN or Ant)?
If significant changes are done to a project structure and simple source checkout wouldn't cut it, we have "changes.txt" file in a project that describes what extra actions are required:

>10/10/2010: New table field, run following query: .....

>10/11/2010: Library X was replaced with library Y, copy it to tomcat folder

This gets the job done but often people forget to check this file and spend time figuring out why it doesn't work. 

Our projects are in Java and we are using Ant for builds and SVN for source versioning.

I am sure there must be some better solution. I am not looking for something fancy and advanced, a big red message during SVN checkout or some message during Ant build would be perfect. 

(PS. Making changes apply automatically is not an option, some instruction only a human should perform)
How to notify other team members about important project changes (using SVN or Ant)?
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If significant changes are done to a project structure and simple source checkout wouldn't cut it, we have "changes.txt" file in a project that describes what extra actions are required:

>10/10/2010: New table field, run following query: .....

>10/11/2010: Library X was replaced with library Y, copy it to tomcat folder

This gets the job done but often people forget to check this file and spend time figuring out why it doesn't work. 

Our projects are in Java and we are using Ant for builds and SVN for source versioning.

I am sure there must be some better solution. I am not looking for something fancy and advanced, a big red message during SVN checkout or some message during Ant build would be perfect. 

(PS. Making changes apply automatically is not an option, some instruction only a human should perform)