Sebb, Great points. I'll make sure the email for the next release provides more details. Would you be available if I wanted to run some templates by you?
John On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:33 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> 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. > > So the e-mails should contain at least brief details of what the > product does. However the sentence: > > "Apache DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container, but a portable CDI extension." > > will mean nothing to most people. What does CDI mean? > > Also, the description does not agree with the website, which says: > > "Apache DeltaSpike is a collection of portable CDI extensions. " > > But again, what does CDI mean in this context? > > 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 20 June 2016 at 00:39, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > > The Apache DeltaSpike team is pleased to announce the 26th release of > > DeltaSpike, v1.7.0. This release includes 40 changes to the codebase > > primarily focused on the data module. We've added some initial Java 8 > > support and improved performance. > > > > Apache DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container, but a portable CDI extension. > > > > Documentation: > > http://deltaspike.apache.org/documentation/ > > > > Download: > > http://deltaspike.apache.org/download.html > > > > Release Notes: > > http://s.apache.org/DeltaSpike-1.7.0 > > > > Enjoy! > > > > John >
