Can I ask why links were added to the getting started page to examples etc for the Ruby and .Net clients that were simultaneously removed from the download page because we voted to drop them from the release (and based on that discussion, the repo as well it seems....though no one has done it yet)? It seems counter intuitive to me as its probably rather unhelpful to users to start promoting the docs for them at this point.
I have updated our DOAP file in svn to include the 0.10 release, so it should show up on our listing at http://projects.apache.org when the site is next generated. We could add a note to the download page (and announcement email?) about the maven artifacts yes, that would seem sensible given the number of people who have asked about the possibility over the years and had probably given up hope of it ever happening ;) I think https://cwiki.apache.org/qpid/010-release.html includes various bits of project/developer orientated info that make it unsuitable for direct use as a release notes page, although some of the earlier information on the page would be OK if separated. That said, I don't think we should be manually creating the release notes content to this extent, that's something JIRA does for you and is one of the reasons to use an issue tracker at all. To me, if you need to reword a JIRA title to describe what it does for the release notes then that just says we already needed to improve the title on JIRA anyway and should be doing that on an ongoing basis instead. I see value in highlighting perhaps the 5 most noteworthy things about a given release in the announcement email, then having everything after that just going via the full release notes and/or documentation. I made a release notes page for the website for 0.8 with the combined JIRA releases notes from the 0.7 and 0.8 versions to make it possible to see everything in a single location, and also so that we could link to the website in our release announcement. Various other projects do this and many of them also offer them via a release notes section on their website. The website looks nicer and is faster than JIRA, it drives users to our website rather than the wiki or JIRA, and finally it gets more links to the website out there for Google to index due to blogs/aggregators/mail archives etc picking it up from the announcement email. I have put up a similar page for 0.10 at http://qpid.apache.org/release_notes_0.10.html if you want to use it. Robbie On 28 April 2011 22:32, Justin Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, everyone. This is to make it official: Qpid 0.10 is released. > > Jonathan helped to get the necessary changes made to the website, and those > are now live. I've done some spot checking, and it appears that the release > artifacts have spread to all the mirrors. > > One issue with release notes remains. So far I've been putting all the > release notes on the wiki, at > > https://cwiki.apache.org/qpid/010-release.html > > Is it satisfactory to use that as our official release notes (it has some > related info and links that may be helpful), or should I create a distinct > page? I note that Robbie created a non-wiki release_notes_0.8.html for the > previous release. > > Regarding maven artifacts, should we add something to our download page for > that? Should I, for instance, reference the pom file? > > Once I've resolved the questions about the above links, I'll create an > announcement for broad distribution. > > Thanks, > Justin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
