I have commenced the text that will be used for the announcement of the release. Help please.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/admin/ The release notes in /etc directory of the package were generated from the "important" entries in the list of changes. From those, i extracted the most important to add to the announcement text below. The main item is "locationmap". I also manually added some other items about plugins taking avantage of locationmap, moving some core functionality to plugins, re-arrangement of the documentation so that existing users don't wonder where it has gone. I considered adding this other item about whiteboard and encouraging developers. IIUC, we need to be careful about the words, as we cannot instruct people outside the dev list to download such stuff. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#releases * Developers will find that many new plugins have been started in the whiteboard/plugins section. We would like to take this opportunity to encourage new developers to assist. What do other people think? Is there better text for this or the items below? Any other items? -----oOo----- Here is the current body of text ... ------------------------ [snipped top part: the standard "What is it" blurb] ... New features in this version include: * Locationmaps define the mapping from requests to locations, which enables content and resources to be located at various different sources. The advantage of this is that the URL seen by the user need bear no relation to the location of the source document, thus Forrest can separate the client URL space from the source document URL space. Thus, using the locationmap it is possible to pull together documents from many different locations into a single uniform site.In addition, since the user URL space is now unconnected to the source URL space it is possible to move source documents without breaking any existing user links. * Existing core plugins and sitemaps have been refactored to take advantage of locationmaps. Some core functionality has moved to plugins. * Some new documents to explain certain core aspects. Documentation menu navigation changed to provide clearer structure for Forrest project versioned product documentation grouped into howto and background sections. Better layout of the Developers tab into Getting Involved, Resources (mail lists, SVN, Issue Tracker) and Best Practices sections. See also the "linkmap" for an automated Table of Contents ability. Full list of changes: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/changes.html See also lists of changes in each plugin's documentation. Upgrade guide: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/upgrading_08.html Thanks for your interest, from the Apache Forrest community. ------------------------
