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. 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 19 February 2018 at 13:38, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbono...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Beam team is pleased to announce the release of 2.3.0 version! > > You can download the release here: > > https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/ > > This release includes the following major new features & improvements: > - full Java 8 support > - Spark 2.x support in Spark runner > - Amazon WS S3 filesystem support > - General-purpose writing to files (FileIO) > - Splittable DoFn support in Python SDK > - Improvements on Portability layer > - Improvements on SDKs & runners > - Improvements on several IOs > > You can take a look on the following blog post and Release Notes for details: > > https://beam.apache.org/blog/2018/02/19/beam-2.3.0.html > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12319527&version=12341608 > > Enjoy !! > > -- > JB on behalf of The Apache Beam team
