Re: Announcements without Release Notes
Tetsuya Kitahata <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.jakarta.general |
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| Organization | Terra-International, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Why don't you see http://www.apachenews.org/ ?? For example, the "Mailet 2.4 release" news is here: http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001213.html Information from DOAP files are included, so more useful than the announcement (e-mail) itself. Sincerely, Tetsuya Kitahata P.S. Lucene 2.4.0 release news you mentioned were put here: http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001193.html ---- > Hello, > > General announcement question I have. I like getting announcement@jakarta emails, as it allows me to passively keep abreast of new releases. What I like even more is when announcements have a link to release notes of some kind, so I can have a look at and quickly get an idea about the project's direction, velocity, focus, maturity, etc. without being intimately familiar with the project. > > For example, I just got an email about Mailet 2.4 release, but there was no link to release notes or a JIRA link that might show what was done between 2.3 and 2.4. I couldn't find any information on the site either. So, my questions are: > Maybe I just don't know where to look? > Am I the only one who would love to see projects' release notes? > Is there an easy way to get projects to include this type of information in releases and make it easily accessible (i.e. don't require me to download, unpackage, and look for a specific file) > > Here is a Lucene example: > http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html#8+October+2008+-+Lucene+Java+2.4.0+available > > With even more detail here: > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/changes/Changes.html > (hm, now I wonder if it would be useful for other projects to copy this functionality) > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tetsuya Kitahata -- Terra-International, Inc. - President - E-mail: [email protected] http://www.terra-intl.com/ Apache News Online http://www.apachenews.org/