On 22 February 2017 at 23:36, Christian Kadner <ckad...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > thanks for your feedback. We will provide more details in future > announcement emails. > > My intention was to avoid superfluous text, since Apache Spark is > a well known project and the Apache Bahir extensions to Spark are > only of interest to people who are already familiar with Spark.
It does not need much, just a sentence or two. For example the ones in the section "What is Apache Bahir" on the website. > The Bahir extensions for Apache Flink are released separately. I could not find any download links ... > Regards, > Christian > > On 22 February 2017 at 07:28:43 AM, Sebastian Bazley wrote: >> >> What is the project about? Why should I be interested in it? >> [rhetorical questions] >> >> >> The Announce emails are sent to people not on the developer or user lists. >> Most will have no idea what the project is about. >> >> So the e-mails should contain at least brief details of what the >> product does, and some info on why the new release might be of >> interest to them. >> >> Although the mail mentions extensions to Apache Spark, it does not say >> what Spark does. >> >> Also, the Bahir home page mentions Apache Flink, but there do not seem >> to be any extensions for Flink. >> >> If Bahir supports both, I would expect the release to contain both. >> >> Readers should not have to click the link to find out the basic >> information >> (although of course it is useful to have such links for further detail). >> >> Please can you add that information to future announce mails? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> On 22 February 2017 at 12:07, Christian Kadner wrote: >> > The Apache Bahir community is pleased to announce the release >> > of Apache Bahir 2.1.0 which provides the following extensions for >> > Apache Spark 2.1.0: >> > >> > - Akka Streaming >> > - MQTT Streaming >> > - MQTT Structured Streaming >> > - Twitter Streaming >> > - ZeroMQ Streaming >> > >> > For more information about Apache Bahir and to download the >> > latest release go to: >> > >> > http://bahir.apache.org >> > >> > The Apache Bahir streaming connectors are also available at: >> > >> > https://spark-packages.org/?q=bahir >> > >> > --- >> > Best regards, >> > Christian Kadner >> >>
