On 7/25/13 8:28 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>HI, > >> I received a reply from the Apache VP of Publicity about distributing >>this as a press release on the Apache news wire. Unfortunately, >>distribution on the news wire service is not possible because it is not >>a major release (e.g. version N.0 or equivalent). Apache doesn't issue a >>press releases for incremental versions. > >Perhaps replay back and say it certainly could be considered a major >release and previous release was more than 6 months ago? Anyone think >otherwise? We did have announcements for 4.8 and 4.9 so I guess the >policy must of changed? I think there is a difference between a press release and an announcement. It looks like we used announce@a.o for 4.9 and 4.9.1. Wasn't our only "press release" related to graduation? > >> She also suggested sending this to annou...@apache.org in plain text >It probably a bit long for that if you look at other announcements to >that list, see the other thread for what I'm suggesting to post there. > >We could certainly put it up here on our blog >http://blogs.apache.org/flex/ Seems like a good idea. I haven't had a chance to review the document yet. My email shows that the document was posted only about 12 hours ago. I think we should give at least 24 hours if not 72 hours for feedback from other timezones and folks like me who were fully occupied trying to investigate what I think is a stop-ship bug. -Alex
