Brilliant, thank you, Niclas. I'll review/edit and incorporate some of the quotes into the draft as well. I'll also change the date to 2017 <g>
Curious: is there a specific reason why you're choosing 4 August for the announcement date? We tend not to issue press releases past Wednesday if it can be avoided, as press coverage diminishes towards the end of the week. So if there's flexibility there, let's see what makes the best sense. Cheers and chat soon, Sally - - - Vice President Marketing & Publicity The Apache Software Foundation Tel +1 617 921 8656 Skype sallykhudairi On Fri, Jul 28, 2017, at 20:31, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > Take two; > *The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache™ Polygene™ v3.0* > *Forest Hill, MD –4 August 2015–* The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the > all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open > Source projects and initiatives, announced today the immediate availability > of Apache™ Polygene™ version 3.0, the Java application framework of choice > for persistence-centric applications.> Apache Polygene delivers a > comprehensive solution for creating business applications, with dependency > injection, aspect oriented programming, persistence system, metrics and > serialization, in a modular fashion with dozens of extensions. Simply put; > Application framework done right. > > Apache Polygene 3.0 is a major release on Java 8, new serialization > subsystem, persistence system additions of Apache Cassandra and Apache Geode > entity stores, full Java Scripting API support and a focus for delivery of > REST API applications and microservices. Polygene 3.0 has many improvements > to make it easier to get started and is a critical release for years to > come.> > "Apache Polygene's slogan --'New Energy for Java - Classes are Dead, Long > Live Interfaces' -- truly captures what Apache Polygene is really about: > designing software efficiently." said Niclas Hedhman, co-Founder of the > project. "Too many frameworks adds a lot of boilerplate and configuration > that is simply not needed. It just slows everyone down, and everyone is > looking for alternatives to JPA, and Polygene can deliver that, and much > more.". > > Polygene originated as Qi4j in 2007, and it's 10 year anniversary is > celebrated with the 9th supported release, and plans for 3 releases in the > next 12 months.> > *Availability and Oversight* > Apache Polygene software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is > overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A > Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day > operations, including community development and product releases. For > downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Polygene, > visit https://polygene.apache.org/> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote:>> > Sally, >> below is a proposal for Press Release. The 3.0 is accepted and being >> propagated in the download mirrors right now.>> >> I have also posted a blog post that describes the changes in 3.0 in more >> detail. I am not sure if we can/want/should include a link to it. Perhaps I >> should post to the ASF blog as well (no idea how to do that)?>> >> https://hedhman.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/apache-polygene-3-0-released/>> >> Can you check, correct, suggest and plan for publish of this? >> >> Thanks a lot. >> *The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache™ Polygene™ v3.0* >> >> **Open Source Composite Oriented Programming platform and tools provides >> "New Energy For Java"**>> *Forest Hill, MD –4 August 2015–* The Apache >> Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and >> incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced >> today the immediate availability of Apache™ Polygene™ Java Edition v.3.0, >> the Composite Oriented Programming platform leveraging Java.>> "Version 3.0 >> has been more work than any previous release." said Paul Merlin, Vice >> President of Apache Polygene and Release Manager. "We have rewritten large >> sections of the Polygene Runtime to leverage Java 8 platform, and decided to >> make all other changes that may break compatibility with previous versions >> at the same time, to minimize user impact.", he continued. "Going forward, >> we are determined to preserve compatibility." >> >> "In our new venture, I am again happy to use Polygene to simplify the >> application modeling." said Jiri Jetmar, member of the Apache Polygene >> Project Management Committee and long-time Polygene user. "Too many features >> are crucial, but being able to not use JPA and have a better persistence >> model is probably the most important one for us. There are very few >> alternatives to JPA, and Polygene is simply the best.", claims Jiri.>> >> "Apache Polygene's slogan --'New Energy for Java - Classes are Dead, Long >> Live Interfaces' -- truly captures what Apache Polygene is really about: >> designing software efficiently." said Niclas Hedhman, co-Founder of the >> project. "Too many frameworks adds a lot of boilerplate and configuration >> that is simply not needed. It just slows everyone down.". >> Asking what the >> future holds for Polygene, Niclas replies "We are already working on >> Polygene 3.1 with a code generator to get started more quickly. Also in the >> works is an enterprise-friendly SQL entity store, to remove the last >> objections of using Polygene in enterprise projects.">> Polygene originated >> as Qi4j in 2007, and it's 10 year anniversary is celebrated with the 9th >> supported release, and plans for 3 releases in the next 12 months.>> >> *Availability and Oversight* >> Apache Polygene software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is >> overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A >> Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day >> operations, including community development and product releases. For >> downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Polygene, >> visit https://polygene.apache.org/>> *About The Apache Software Foundation >> (ASF)* >> << SALLY: insert current footer >> >> © The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Polygene" and "Apache Polygene" >> are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in >> the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks >> are the property of their respective owners.>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer >> http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java>> >> > > > > -- > > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java>
