Hmm. I still don't like the first line. The "it's been hardŠ" assumes that folks think it has been hard. Also, please propose a subject as well. Maybe "Apache Flex Progress Report"?
How about for the first two lines: A lot has been going on in Apache Flex in recent months. In case you haven't been following on the dev list, Here's a brief overview of the current state of the project and milestones since becoming a top level project. And I would add to the list of areas where we are looking for help: -We need folks to help develop and test the FlexJS and Falcon code bases. Thanks, -Alex On 3/16/14 6:28 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: >Hi, > >Here's my second draft. It's now intended to be sent directly to all >committers. > >--- start draft --- >Hi Apache Flex Committer, > >and it¹s been hard to keep up to date with all of the news. > >Here's a brief overview of the current state of the project and >milestones since becoming a top level project. >- We're released 5 versions of the Flex SDK under Apache. >- Work have progressed on FlexJS to a point we are nearing an alpha >release >- We're attracted more committers and PMC members to the project >- There's been 30,000 installs of the Flex SDK over the last 7 months >- 4.12 had 1,500 install in the first week after it's release >- 4.11 had 15,000 installs >- 4.10 had 11,000 installs >- The SDK has had significant speed and memory performance improvements >since the 4.8 release >- 450 JIRA bugs have been resolved since the 4.8 release >- The flex.apage.org website has had over 1,000,000 page views and >450,000 visitors >- Serval PMC members will be giving talks at Apache Con in Denver >- The 360|Flex conference is back on this year >- There will be a new release of FlexUnit in the near future > >We know you are busy and may not have the time to help out the project >and that's fine. >But if you do have a little spare time on your hands and want to become a >little more involved in >contributing to Apache Flex there¹s several areas where we are looking >for help. >- More issues are being submitted by users in JIRA and need attention >- We still have outstanding bugs from when Adobe donated the SDK >- We need to update support for modern mobile OS versions, work is >underway on this >- We need more examples for the community showcase >- We need people to help localise the installer and SDK into other locales > >If you can help out with any of these tasks or in any other way it would >be much appreciated. > >Thanks, >Apache Flex PMC Team >-- end draft -- > >The intention is to inform people who may be out of the loop and >encourage them (if they have the free time and the inclination) to help >out. > >Jeffry if you're still against this and there's no word changes that make >it acceptable to you I'll give up and move onto something else. > >Thanks, >Justin
