Hi,
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:47:29PM -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote:
At the moment we write release announcements using in.relation.to and
then
announce in other mediums by posting that link. We all agree (more or
less) that the wiki editor and rendering on there leaves much to be desired.
+100, the editor and rendering sucks.
Brett had mentioned a long time ago about GitHub and its release
capabilities and tonight I went back and looked at them again. I created a
more descriptive release announcement in GitHub then its default of just
using the tag message for this 5.0.0.CR1 release just to see how it worked
out. Here are the 2 links for comparison:
*
http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateORM500CR1Release
*
https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/5.0.0.CR1
There are a few things to notice here. First, I think we can all agree
that the second looks considerably better. Also, there is a lot to be said
for these being closely available from the source repo.
I like this approach in general and I agree there is a certain merit in having
the announcements in the source repo, BUT :-)
We are very close now with the migration of in.relation.to to awestruct. In fact I
was hoping we could do the migration within a couple of weeks. Using the awestruct
based blog, we get markdown/ascidoc for writing the blog entries and also a blog
which matches it its style the current
hibernate.org website. It also means we can
continue our practice of announcing on the blog. The release announcements make up
a considerable part of the blog content, I fear moving them to GitHub will make our blog
to appear stagnant.
My vote is to push this blog migration through - now!
--Hardy