Re: Announcements without Release Notes
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 12:51 -0800, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: Hello, General announcement question I have. I like getting announcem...@jakarta emails, as it allows me to passively keep abreast of new releases. What I like even more is when announcements have a link to release notes of some kind, so I can have a look at and quickly get an idea about the project's direction, velocity, focus, maturity, etc. without being intimately familiar with the project. For example, I just got an email about Mailet 2.4 release, but there was no link to release notes or a JIRA link that might show what was done between 2.3 and 2.4. I couldn't find any information on the site either. So, my questions are: Maybe I just don't know where to look? in this case there weren't any substantial changes between 2.3 and 2.4: 2.4 is just a release independent of the server. but i agree about this point in general and i will try to include more information in future. - robert (who hopes no one remembers that he wrote quite a lot of the release documentat...@jakarta) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@jakarta.apache.org
Re: Announcements without Release Notes
Otis Gospodnetic wrote: For example, I just got an email about Mailet 2.4 release, but there was no link to release notes or a JIRA link that might show what was done between 2.3 and 2.4. I couldn't find any information on the site either. So, my questions are: Maybe I just don't know where to look? Am I the only one who would love to see projects' release notes? Is there an easy way to get projects to include this type of information in releases and make it easily accessible (i.e. don't require me to download, unpackage, and look for a specific file) There used to be a maven-announcement-plugin which created a nice announcement including all the news from your changes.xml. Dunno about maven2. For an example look here: http://markmail.org/message/goecp6jy3llbxv6a HTH Bye, Thomas. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@jakarta.apache.org
Re: Announcements without Release Notes
Thomas Vandahl wrote: Otis Gospodnetic wrote: For example, I just got an email about Mailet 2.4 release, but there was no link to release notes or a JIRA link that might show what was done between 2.3 and 2.4. I couldn't find any information on the site either. So, my questions are: Maybe I just don't know where to look? Am I the only one who would love to see projects' release notes? Is there an easy way to get projects to include this type of information in releases and make it easily accessible (i.e. don't require me to download, unpackage, and look for a specific file) There used to be a maven-announcement-plugin which created a nice announcement including all the news from your changes.xml. Dunno about maven2. This is handled by the Changes Plugin in Maven 2: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/ For an example look here: http://markmail.org/message/goecp6jy3llbxv6a HTH Bye, Thomas. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@jakarta.apache.org -- Dennis Lundberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@jakarta.apache.org
Re: Announcements without Release Notes
Why don't you see http://www.apachenews.org/ ?? For example, the Mailet 2.4 release news is here: http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001213.html Information from DOAP files are included, so more useful than the announcement (e-mail) itself. Sincerely, Tetsuya Kitahata P.S. Lucene 2.4.0 release news you mentioned were put here: http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001193.html Hello, General announcement question I have. I like getting announcem...@jakarta emails, as it allows me to passively keep abreast of new releases. What I like even more is when announcements have a link to release notes of some kind, so I can have a look at and quickly get an idea about the project's direction, velocity, focus, maturity, etc. without being intimately familiar with the project. For example, I just got an email about Mailet 2.4 release, but there was no link to release notes or a JIRA link that might show what was done between 2.3 and 2.4. I couldn't find any information on the site either. So, my questions are: Maybe I just don't know where to look? Am I the only one who would love to see projects' release notes? Is there an easy way to get projects to include this type of information in releases and make it easily accessible (i.e. don't require me to download, unpackage, and look for a specific file) Here is a Lucene example: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html#8+October+2008+-+Lucene+Java+2.4.0+available With even more detail here: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/changes/Changes.html (hm, now I wonder if it would be useful for other projects to copy this functionality) Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Tetsuya Kitahata -- Terra-International, Inc. - President - E-mail: kitah...@terra-intl.com http://www.terra-intl.com/ Apache News Online http://www.apachenews.org/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@jakarta.apache.org
Re: Announcements without Release Notes
Why don't you see http://www.apachenews.org/ ?? For example, the Mailet 2.4 release news is here: http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001213.html Information from DOAP files are included, so more useful than the announcement (e-mail) itself. Sincerely, Tetsuya Kitahata P.S. Lucene 2.4.0 release news you mentioned were put here: http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001193.html Hello, General announcement question I have. I like getting announcem...@jakarta emails, as it allows me to passively keep abreast of new releases. What I like even more is when announcements have a link to release notes of some kind, so I can have a look at and quickly get an idea about the project's direction, velocity, focus, maturity, etc. without being intimately familiar with the project. For example, I just got an email about Mailet 2.4 release, but there was no link to release notes or a JIRA link that might show what was done between 2.3 and 2.4. I couldn't find any information on the site either. So, my questions are: Maybe I just don't know where to look? Am I the only one who would love to see projects' release notes? Is there an easy way to get projects to include this type of information in releases and make it easily accessible (i.e. don't require me to download, unpackage, and look for a specific file) Here is a Lucene example: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html#8+October+2008+-+Lucene+Java+2.4.0+available With even more detail here: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/changes/Changes.html (hm, now I wonder if it would be useful for other projects to copy this functionality) Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Tetsuya Kitahata -- Terra-International, Inc. - President - E-mail: kitah...@terra-intl.com http://www.terra-intl.com/ Apache News Online http://www.apachenews.org/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@jakarta.apache.org
