Thanks Rob let the remaining work clear. The approved packages can be access here: http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/odftoolkit/ I am working on fix the existing issue on the configuration of pom.xml and it should be ready before next week.
we also need a download page following this guide: http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html. Anyone volunteer to help us do this job? 2012/1/12 Rob Weir <[email protected]> > So now that we have an approved released, what should we do? > > 1) I assume that Devin, as Release Manager, is working on getting the > approved packages onto the mirrors and Maven central. > > 2) We will want a link from our website as well, probably a top level > "Download" link > > 3) An announcement email that we can send to the odf-users and related > lists. > > 4) Do what we can do individually to promote awareness of this new > release, via social networking sites, etc. > > 5) Start discussion on the next release. > > In general, I think this initial release at Apache is a great > opportunity to make people more aware of our work, attract more users, > and hopefully more contributors as well. The work we've done in this > initial release was not very fun. We did a lot of migration, of > websites and code, a lot of work to review IP, a lot of work to create > Maven assemblies and comply with Apache release procedures. These > were all one-time tasks, and future releases should be a lot easier. > > But now begins the fun part, talking about new features and writing > new code. This will be a good opportunity to attract new developers. > I think we all agree that increasing the size and diversity of the > project is important. (We say this in our podling report, for > example). So let's think about how we can grow the community. > > -Rob > -- -Devin
