Thank you for the information, Sebastian. This maybe our first time posting to the announce list. I posted on the list to provide more visibility about the release, but I used the previous announcement template.
I will add a note about the brief details to our release process instructions. - Sudheesh On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:35 AM, sebb <[email protected]> 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. > > 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 29 November 2016 at 23:52, Sudheesh Katkam <[email protected]> wrote: > > On behalf of the Apache Drill community, I am happy to announce the > release > > of Apache Drill 1.9.0. > > > > For information about Apache Drill, and to get involved, visit the > project > > website: > > > > https://drill.apache.org/ > > > > This release introduces new features and enhancements, including > > asynchronous Parquet reader, Parquet filter pushdown, dynamic UDF support > > and HTTPD format plugin. In all, 70 issues have been resolved. > > > > The binary and source artifacts are available here: > > > > https://drill.apache.org/download/ > > > > Review the release notes for a complete list of fixes and enhancements: > > > > https://drill.apache.org/docs/apache-drill-1-9-0-release-notes/ > > > > Thanks to everyone in the community who contributed to this release! > > > > - Sudheesh >
