You should also add a paragraph saying what is ivy. A lot of the people who will receive the announcement didn't know ivy yet.
Gilles > -----Original Message----- > From: Xavier Hanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: mercredi 25 avril 2007 21:30 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Finishing release process > > On 4/25/07, Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is too strong IMHO. "Still we encourage the use of this version for > > early testing". Turn it around. > > > > You might want to leave a few words on what has changed, in particular > > if you've added new features. > > Something like that: > ------------------------------------------------------ > April 26 2007 - The Ivy incubator project is please to announce its > 2.0.0 alpha 1 release, exactly two years after Ivy 1.0! > > This is the first release of Ivy in the Apache incubator, and as an > alpha version we do not guarantee any stability, that API and features > are still likely to change until final 2.0.0 version. Still we encourage > the use of this version for early testing. > > This version focus was to refactor the code to get better readability, > rename packages to org.apache.ivy, improve maven 2 compatibility along > with some other bug fixes and improvement. > > Download the 2.0.0 alpha 1 release files and view the release notes at: > http://people.apache.org/dist/incubator/ivy/2.0.0-alpha-1-incubating/ > > More information can be found on the Ivy website - > http://incubator.apache.org/ivy > > regards, > Xavier Hanin (2.0.0-alpha-1 release mgr) > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Xavier > > -- > Learn Ivy at ApacheCon: http://www.eu.apachecon.com/ > Manage your dependencies with Ivy! > http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/
