"In response to user demand, the Cayenne team..." How about:
"In response to developer revolt, the Cayenne team..." :-) Seriously, just leave out the user demand part and it'll probably be fine: "The Cayenne team..." Thanks, mrg On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the most wordy (and slightly controversial) release note I've > written. I'll leave it 24 hours if anyone has amendments to this before I > touch the front page to have it update, and send to the email > lists/freshmeat/etc/etc > > > Cheers > Ari > > > On 27/05/2009, at 11:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> New News: CAYSITE : Cayenne 3.0M6 Released (25 May 2009) >> Cayenne 3.0M6 Released (25 May 2009) has been created by Ari Maniatis (May >> 27, 2009). >> >> Content: >> Another release on the journey to Cayenne 3.0! This milestone adds a >> plethora of new features including quoting of identifiers (useful for db >> column names with spaces), nested contexts in ROP, and >> EJBQL/SQLTemplate/ProcedureQuery queries now support the full range of >> configuration options available to native SelectQueries. The Modeler >> received new features such schema analysis on startup (which can prompt the >> user to create or upgrade the database schema) and support for EJBQL. >> Naturally, lots of bug fixes have also made it into Cayenne in the last 5 >> months since the previous milestone. >> >> In response to user demand, the Cayenne team have also decided to not >> target JPA compliance for 3.0, and instead focus on further improvements to >> the range and flexibility of the native API. Although Cayenne may return to >> focus on JPA in the future, the work done already (such as lifecycle events, >> EJBQL, etc) has been very useful and will remain important parts of Cayenne >> for everyone to use. Cayenne's clean and powerful API is one of the main >> reasons users choose this library and focussing our efforts there is our >> primary goal. >> >> We hope you enjoy this latest release. There will probably be only one >> more release with new features before 3.0 is settled into beta testing, so >> we encourage everyone to try this latest milestone, and report back to us >> with any important missing functionality. We have several developers who >> track Cayenne trunk reasonably closely in production systems, so we are >> confident of the stability of this release. It is likely that there will be >> some API changes before the final 3.0 is released. >> >> >> >> Powered by Atlassian Confluence (Version: 2.2.9 Build:#527 Sep 07, 2006) - >> Bug/feature request >> >> Unsubscribe or edit your notifications preferences > > > > > > --------------------------> > Aristedes Maniatis > phone +61 2 9660 9700 > PGP fingerprint 08 57 20 4B 80 69 59 E2 A9 BF 2D 48 C2 20 0C C8 > > >
