Maybe copy the answers from here? One of them is Claus's answer, too. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8845186/what-exactly-is-apache-camel
On 9 May 2016 at 04:33, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is Camel? Why should I be interested in it? > > The Announce emails are sent to people not on the developer or user lists. > Most will have no idea what the project is about. > > So the e-mails should contain at least brief details of what the > product does, and some info on why the new release might be of > interest to them. > > Readers should not have to click the link to find out the basic information > (although of course it is useful to have such links for further detail). > > Please can you add that information to future announce mails? > > Thanks. > > On 8 May 2016 at 20:56, Gregor Zurowski <gzurow...@apache.org> wrote: > > The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the new > > patch release Camel 2.17.1. This release contains 94 bug fixes and > > improvements applied in the past months by the community on the Camel > > 2.17.x branch. > > > > The artifacts are published and ready for you to download [1] either > > from the Apache mirrors or from the Central Maven repository. For more > > details please take a look at the release notes [2, 3]. > > > > Many thanks to all who made this release possible. > > > > On behalf of the Camel PMC, > > Gregor Zurowski > > > > [1] http://camel.apache.org/download.html > > [2] http://camel.apache.org/camel-2171-release.html > > [3] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12334914&projectId=12311211 > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>