Do we archive the release notes somewhere so that someone can read a high-level summary of the changes for each release? Digging through the dev@ email list archive to find the release notes draft or searching a web archiver of one of the mirrors at a date in the past seem suboptimal. There is no release notes file in the subversion tag or a page on our site that summarizes the changes in a release more concisely than changes.html.
The current https://poi.apache.org links to both 3.14 and 3.15, but we overwrote the 3.14 release notes on https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt and all mirrors when we released 3.15. On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Javen O'Neal <one...@apache.org> wrote: > Nevermind. Just need to update the POI homepage to link to release > instead of dev. > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Javen O'Neal <one...@apache.org> wrote: >> The release notes have not made it to the apache and non-apache >> mirrors. The release notes reference "3.15-beta 2" for me. Did the >> 3.15 final release notes get published correctly? >> >> https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/dev/RELEASE-NOTES.txt >> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Javen O'Neal <one...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Good point! >>> >>> A one sentence "Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing >>> Microsoft Office files" should do. We'll add this to our announce template >>> for future releases. >>> >>> >>> On Sep 22, 2016 9:28 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, 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 21 September 2016 at 23:32, David North <dno...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> > The Apache POI PMC are pleased to announce the release of Apache POI >>>> > 3.15. >>>> > >>>> > For details of changes in this release, refer to the release notes: >>>> > >>>> > https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt >>>> > >>>> > Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible. >>>> > >>>> > Some of us will be at ApacheCon Europe in Seville later in the year; do >>>> > find us there if you have input and suggestions. >>>> > >>>> > On behalf of the Apache POI PMC, >>>> > >>>> > David North >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org >>>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
