Good point! A one sentence "Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office files" should do. We'll add this to our announce template for future releases.
On Sep 22, 2016 9:28 AM, "sebb" <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the project about? Why should I be interested in it? > [rhetorical questions] > > The Announce emails are sent to people not on the developer or user lists. > Most will have no idea what the project is about. > > So the e-mails should contain at least brief details of what the > product does, and some info on why the new release might be of > interest to them. > > Readers should not have to click the link to find out the basic information > (although of course it is useful to have such links for further detail). > > Please can you add that information to future announce mails? > > Thanks. > > On 21 September 2016 at 23:32, David North <dno...@apache.org> wrote: > > The Apache POI PMC are pleased to announce the release of Apache POI > 3.15. > > > > For details of changes in this release, refer to the release notes: > > > > https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt > > > > Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible. > > > > Some of us will be at ApacheCon Europe in Seville later in the year; do > > find us there if you have input and suggestions. > > > > On behalf of the Apache POI PMC, > > > > David North > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > >
