Perhaps have a look at the announce mails sent by Httpd and Tomcat. Even though these projects are better known than most, they still provide a short summary of what they do. I don't think they read as though written by robots...
On 16 March 2018 at 17:02, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote: > All our previous announcements were formatted precisely the way you suggest. > However, I haven't fount that template effective. Personally, I archive an > email immediately if see it's written the standard way and I know nothing > about the product. > > That's why I decided to experiment targeting those who already know Ignite > and interested in solutions it provided in 2.4. Really appreciate your > feedback and will see how to incorporate your suggestions for future > announcements. Just don't like to see emails written by "robots". > > -- > Denis > > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:34 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> 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 16 March 2018 at 00:09, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote: >> > Usually, Ignite community rolls out a new version once in 3 months, but >> > we >> > had to make an exception for Apache Ignite 2.4 that consumed five months >> > in >> > total. >> > >> > We could easily blame Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays for >> > the >> > delay and would be forgiven, but, in fact, we were forging the release >> > you >> > can't just pass by. >> > >> > Let's dive in and look for a big fish: >> > https://blogs.apache.org/ignite/entry/apache-ignite-2-4-brings >> > >> > The full list of the changes can be found here: >> > https://ignite.apache.org/releases/2.4.0/release_notes.html >> > >> > Ready to try then navigate to our downloads page: >> > https://ignite.apache.org/download.cgi >> > >> > -- >> > Denis > >
