smarru commented on a change in pull request #258:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airavata/pull/258#discussion_r466014964



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+# Apache Airavata
+
 [![Build 
Status](https://travis-ci.org/apache/airavata.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/apache/airavata)
+[![Maven 
Central](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/org.apache.airavata/airavata/badge.svg)](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.airavata%22)
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+## About
+
+Apache Airavata is a software framework for executing and managing 
computational
+jobs on distributed computing resources including local clusters,
+supercomputers, national grids, academic and commercial clouds. Airavata builds
+on general concepts of service oriented computing, distributed messaging, and
+workflow composition and orchestration. Airavata bundles a server package with
+an API, client software development Kits and a general purpose reference UI
+implementation -
+[Apache Airavata Django 
Portal](https://github.com/apache/airavata-django-portal).
+
+Learn more about Airavata at
+[https://airavata.apache.org](https://airavata.apache.org).
+
+## Building Apache Airavata
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+- Sources compilation require Java SDK 8 or higher.

Review comment:
       I guess we should tag the master branch to a release branch and merge 
develop to master soon. 




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