Hi Joe, > On 08-May-2015, at 4:16 pm, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think this has been discussed before, but an announcement != a press > release. Quotes really are not appropriate for announcements. Since this > is a point release, it's probably not something we'd put a press release > out for as they're generally not something that the press is going to > pick up.
I think we included quotes in 4.3.0 announcements so I’m using that as a template. Further, 4.5.0 was not announced so perhaps when we announce 4.5.1 (even though technically a minor release) we can put a press release? I’ve removed the quotes from the draft, please review the update draft: ##### Draft starts #### Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution. CloudStack became an Apache Top-level Project (TLP) in March 2013. The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.5.1 release of the CloudStack, the cloud orchestration platform. 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