Thank you Julian. I took a look at the archives [1] to get an idea of what is the norm. I also made note of the things you mentioned, plus a few more tidying up issues.
I'm holding off on the announce email until I get a few other people's input, and will send it by the end of today --Marc [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/announce@apache.org/ On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > Send it to the announce list. You can see other announcements and get some > ideas here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/ > 201703.mbox/browser <http://mail-archives.apache. > org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201703.mbox/browser> > > Yes, it’s an opportunity to describe your mission (and unique technology) > in a bit more detail. The list has a wide audience (e.g. I get pings from > analysts after announcing a calcite release there) so use the exposure > widely. > > Also, it can be the first tweet on that long-neglected > https://twitter.com/ApacheQuickstep <https://twitter.com/ApacheQuickstep> > account. > > On the downloads page I would include the date of the release and a link > to the release notes/history. You will want to describe the baseline > functionality that is in this release so that next release you can describe > what is new. At this point some projects have a “status” page describing in > bullet points what is working and what is not working. > > Julian > > > On Mar 25, 2017, at 8:07 AM, Harshad Deshmukh <hars...@cs.wisc.edu> > wrote: > > > > Hi Marc, > > > > I don't know about the Apache protocol, so may be the mentors may have > something to say about that. > > > > How about saying high performance, relational data processing engine > developed in C++? > > > > The release is very exciting! I will start another thread regarding > publicity of the release. > > > > Sent from Outlook for Android > > > > > > From: Marc Spehlmann > > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 9:57 AM > > Subject: release announcement > > To: dev@quickstep.incubator.apache.org > > > > Hello quickstep, I am going to send an announce email to a few of the > other apache lists later today. Is there anything special about this > release that we want to mention (besides that it's our first release)? If > not, that's fine, I will send this email: ___ The Apache Quickstep > (incubating) team is pleased to announce the release of Quickstep 0.1.0 > (our very first release!) Quickstep is a high-performance C++ SQL database. > The release is available at: https://quickstep.incubator. > apache.org/release Thank you, The Apache Quickstep (incubating) team ___ > --Marc > >
