Re: [ANN] Apache Forrest 0.2 Released

[David Crossley <cr...@indexgeo.com.au>]

It is amazing, but it always happens. We forgot one really
important thing when we prepared our announcement email.

We neglected to tell them where the website was.

--David

> The Forrest team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Forrest
> 0.2.
> 
>   Introduction & History
>   ----------------------
> 
> Forrest is an XML standards-oriented project documentation framework
> based on Apache Cocoon, providing XSLT stylesheets and schemas, images
> and other resources. Forrest uses these to render the XML source content
> into a website via command-line, robot, or a dynamic web application. 
> 
> This is Forrest's first public release.  Forrest was originally
> envisioned [1] as a Sourceforge-like documentation management framework
> for xml.apache.org projects.  Eleven months later, Forrest is a much more
> focused, generic system.
> 
>  - All xml.apache.org assumptions have been eliminated: Forrest can be
>    used in any project.
>  - Forrest's cross-project goals have been put on hold while effort is
>    put into making Forrest a good single-project tool.
> 
> 
>   Status
>   ------
> 
> Forrest is currently experiencing rapid growth, and this release is made
> in the spirit of "release early and often".  To quote from the release
> notes:
> 
>   This 0.2 release is believed to be stable, and is in use by many
>   projects (including xml.apache.org).  However, forrest-dev explicitly
>   DOES NOT intend to maintain the degree of accountability and
>   backwards-compatibility intended for future 0.x releases.  This 0.2
>   release is made primarily to meet user demand, to solicit feedback, and
>   to give the Forrest community a trial run in the process of Forrest
>   releases.
> 
> 
>   Downloads
>   ---------
> 
> Forrest 0.2 can be downloaded in binary or source form from:
> 
>   http://cvs.apache.org/~jefft/forrest/releases/0.2/
> 
> Please also take time to read the release notes:
> 
>   http://cvs.apache.org/~jefft/forrest/releases/0.2/RELEASE-NOTES-0.2.txt
> 
> which contains important information about known bugs.
> 
> 
>   Feedback
>   --------
> 
> Please send all feedback to the forrest-dev@xml.apache.org mailing list [2].
> 
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> 
> 
>   The Apache Forrest team
> 
> 
> -- 
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-general&m=100857962129228&w=2
> [2] http://xml.apache.org/mail.html

Re: [ANN] Apache Forrest 0.2 Released

[Jeff Turner <je...@apache.org>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:48:02PM +1100, David Crossley wrote:
> It is amazing, but it always happens. We forgot one really
> important thing when we prepared our announcement email.
> 
> We neglected to tell them where the website was.

Doh!  The number of times I proofread that thing.. :P  Oh well, there's
links in the release notes. 


--Jeff


> --David