Thanks for the great input as always, Julian! I'll have a look at previous posts in the announcement list and draft a post for 0.60. We have not yet started writing a DOAP, something else to add to our todo list.
Regards, Bart On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 8:45 PM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > (I have renamed the thread; was "Re: Foreign licensed files have been > removed”.) > > That’s great. > > If you have not sent an email to announce@ you should do that too. (It > goes through moderation, and may take one or two iterations before they are > happy with the content, but you’ll get there in the end.) A lot of people > follow announce — e.g. tech journalists — so you’ll read a wider audience. > > The release notes seem to be incremental (i.e. what happened since the > previous release), which is fine and appropriate. But have you considered > some content (blog post, short video) that explains “What is Apache Hop?” > to people who are not familiar with it. With a first Apache release, now is > a good time to start reaching a new audience. > > Another task: have we created a DOAP (description of a project) file yet? > We need to have one before graduation, but now might be a good time. It is > useful to have a standard description of the project - an elevator pitch, > if you will - and the doap will force us to do that. The release > announcement should start with a description of the project for people who > have never heard of it. > > Julian > > [1] https://projects.apache.org/doap.html > > > > On Jan 27, 2021, at 11:20 AM, Bart Maertens <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > We have a release announcement on the blog [1] that has been shared on > > Twitter and LinkedIn, we'll look into posting on the announcement list > etc > > as well. There's no such thing as too much publicity ;-) > > > > [1] https://hop.apache.org/blog/2021/01/release-0.60/ > > > > Regards, > > Bart > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 8:14 PM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Well done! > >> > >> Also, congratulations on passing the vote for 0.60 in the IPMC. The > first > >> release is always hard. Next releases get easier. Now we have a release > we > >> can use it to generate some publicity. > >> > >> Julian > >> > >> > >>> On Jan 27, 2021, at 5:49 AM, Francois Papon < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> This is A New Hop :) > >>> > >>> regards, > >>> > >>> François > >>> [email protected] > >>> > >>> Le 27/01/2021 à 14:46, Maximilian Michels a écrit : > >>>> Great news for Hop! > >>>> > >>>> -Max > >>>> > >>>> On 27.01.21 14:37, Matt Casters wrote: > >>>>> I guess the worst part was that most of these foreign license files > >>>>> weren't > >>>>> even used in the source code. > >>>>> I'm very happy about where we are now though. I feel much cleaner > now. > >>>>> > >>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 2:30 PM Francois Papon > >>>>> <[email protected]> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Well done! > >>>>>> > >>>>>> regards, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> François > >>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Le 27/01/2021 à 14:17, Hans Van Akelyen a écrit : > >>>>>>> Hi All, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Great news! With the merge of following PR > >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop/pull/585 all non compliant > >>>>>> source > >>>>>>> code files have been removed from our codebase! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> This means that we passed one of the hurdles to eventually graduate > >>>>>>> to a > >>>>>>> Top Level Project. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Cheers, > >>>>>>> Hans > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >> > >> > >
