> On Aug 19, 2016, at 6:14 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. > > It's helpful to have a short introduction near the start of the > announcement to give the context. > If they are interested, they can read further. > > In this case there is a brief description of the project in the mail, > but it is right at the bottom. > > Please could you consider putting the description at the start of the > mail for future releases? > > Thanks.
Hello, yes of course, will certainly do that next time. > > On Aug 19, 2016, at 6:14 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Some sample announce mails from other projects: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/aaf8f266d7827ab61abf53156644a9f736af5df1e631fc8815c619de@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e9bbcdc950ba9e37db6196286e1396a52d99a3b54e6e9710e8c2bdfa@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E > > [email protected]: > https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] Thanks for your input, much appreciated. Shawn
