Yes, that would be ideal for the announce emails.
On 16 March 2018 at 23:42, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote: > Absolutely. The concern here was that I didn't provide the necessary > description in general. > > -- > Denis > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org> > wrote: >> >> Denis, >> >> The brief pitch we provide on the home page should be good enough, no? >> >> Apache Ignite™ is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and >> > processing platform for >> > transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory >> > speeds at petabyte scale >> >> >> D. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > Thanks for the pointers, will check them up. >> > >> > Have a good weekend, >> > Denis >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:16 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > 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 >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
