On 20 March 2017 at 15:47, Bryan Bende <[email protected]> wrote: > Sebb, > > Sorry for any confusion. I used the normal announce template that we > always use, except the paragraph that normally explains what NiFi is: > > "Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to > process and distribute > data. Apache NiFi was made for dataflow. It supports highly > configurable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and > system mediation logic." > > was replaced with: > > "The Apache NiFi NAR Maven Plugin helps to build NiFi Archive bundles > (NARs) to support the class loader isolation model in NiFi." > > I thought this made sense because the release being announced was not > a release of Apache NiFi itself, but a release of Apache NiFi's NAR > Plugin, so I was trying to describe the thing being released. > > Going forward we can definitely include the description of NiFi when > releasing the NAR plugin.
OK, thanks. I think both descriptions are needed in this case. > > Thanks, > > Bryan > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:29 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). >> >> Whilst it is clear that this announce is about a Maven plugin for >> Apache NiFi, there are no details as to what NiFi itself is about. >> >> Please can you add that information to future announce mails? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> On 20 March 2017 at 14:20, Bryan Bende <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> The Apache NiFi team would like to announce the release of Apache NiFi >>> nifi-nar-maven-plugin 1.2.0. >>> >>> The Apache NiFi NAR Maven Plugin helps to build NiFi Archive bundles >>> (NARs) to support the class loader isolation model in NiFi. >>> >>> More details on Apache NiFi can be found here: >>> https://nifi.apache.org/ >>> >>> Maven artifacts have been made available here: >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/org/apache/nifi/nifi-nar-maven-plugin/1.2.0/ >>> >>> Issues closed/resolved for this list can be found here: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316020&version=12339193 >>> >>> Release note highlights can be found here: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-NiFiNARMavenPluginVersion1.2.0 >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> The Apache NiFi team
