Thanks, Rohit --there's a new announcement format that I had worked on a few months back.
I'll integrate and circulate a draft tomorrow. Unfortunately I'm offsite today and won't be able to edit until I'm back this evening. Watch this space, Sally >________________________________ > From: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]> >To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 9:05 >Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Announcement draft for CloudMonkey 5.2.0 release > > >Hi Sally, > >Thanks for replying, I think we should do the release and announcement by end >of this week. Looking forward to the announcement draft/format. > >I followed the announcement format from previous CloudMonkey releases: >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201405.mbox/%3ccaee685gjuxe+dna96vs3g6ma-r1eeweisn8bicbmr5mymid...@mail.gmail.com%3E > >Regards. > >On 26-Aug-2014, at 2:57 pm, Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks so much, Rohit. >> >> This is great. I'll work on getting it in the "project announcement" format, >> and will send the draft back to the list before Friday. >> >> If you can please keep me apprised of the projected timeframe, that would be >> great. >> >> Warmly, >> Sally >> >> From: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]> >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 8:44 >> Subject: [DISCUSS] Announcement draft for CloudMonkey 5.2.0 release >> >> Hi All, >> >> We recently voted for CloudMonkey 5.2.0 release and it passed: >> http://markmail.org/message/uwsqpmo76rrmaprw >> >> I’m facing some access issues while publishing cloudmonkey release over svn, >> until I get either PMC or ASF infra folks to help me move the artifact on >> the svn repo. After 24 hours the artifacts are published on the release >> dist, I’ll go ahead with announcing this if we’re okay with the draft. >> >> Meanwhile, I’m sharing the announcement draft for your review and comments, >> especially Sally’s so we have at least the announcement email ready. >> >> —— Start — — >> >> Aug <Date of release?>, 2014 - The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the >> all-volunteer >> developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects >> and >> initiatives, today announced Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.2.0, the latest >> feature release of the CloudStack CloudMonkey command line interface (CLI). >> >> Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey is a command line interface (CLI) tool for >> CloudStack written in Python. CloudMonkey can be use both as an interactive >> shell and as a command line tool which simplifies CloudStack configuration >> and >> management. >> >> CloudMonkey 5.2.0 is the next feature release of the 5.x line which first >> released on September 24, 2013. Some of the noteworthy new and improved >> features and changes >> include: >> >> - Multiple server profiles where users can use cloudmonkey against different >> CloudStack management servers and switch between them using a profile option >> - A default profile under the section [local] is added with default values >> - Some bugfixes related to network requests, error handling, json decoding >> and shell interactivity >> - Every time `set` is called, cloudmonkey will write the config and reload >> config file >> - Config options `protocol`, `host`, `port`, `path` are deprecated now but >> setting them is still allowed which sets a single “url” option, in the >> config file the [server] section is deprecated now and cloudmonkey won’t >> read values from this section anymore but instead read from currently >> selected server profile >> - Missing key/values are automatically set with defaults by cloudmonkey >> - During installation and upgrades, it will detect the platform to install >> either pyreadline (Windows) or readline (OSX and Linux) >> >> Downloads and Documentation >> >> The official source code for the 5.2.0 release, can be downloaded from the >> Apache >> CloudStack downloads page at http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html. A >> community maintained distribution is available at the Python Package Index >> (PyPi) at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cloudmonkey/ >> >> CloudMonkey’s usage is documented on our wiki at >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+cloudmonkey+CLI >> And the package documentation can be found at >> http://pythonhosted.org/cloudmonkey >> >> Availability and Oversight >> >> As with all Apache products, Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.2.0 is released >> under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of >> active >> contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the >> Project¹s day-to-day operations, including community development and product >> releases. 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