Third-Party Distributions

[Rajesh Venkatachalam <vr...@yahoo.com>]

We want to provide a third party distribution (download page) for CloudStack packages. Who should I send the link to? Please let me know. 
Thanks,Rajesh.V 

      From: Rajesh Venkatachalam <vr...@yahoo.com>
 To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org" <ma...@cloudstack.apache.org>; Rajesh Venkatachalam <vr...@yahoo.com> 
 Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 12:39 PM
 Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][REVIEW] CloudStack 4.9.1.0 announcement
   
Please see if this is better. Changes made include - - moving ver # to after CloudStack in lines 1,2- 'allows' to 'allowing'- change 'includes full list...' to 'include a full list...'- simplifying 'Please see the Rel...' to ', and can be found at'- replacing 'as follows' towards the end with 'can be found at' 
  # ApacheCloudStack Release 4.9.0.1

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release ofthe CloudStack 4.9.1.0 as part of its LTS 4.9.x releases. The CloudStack 4.9.1.0release contains more than 70 bug-fixes and improvements since thelast minor CloudStack 4.9.0 release.
Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) softwareplatform that allowing users to build feature-rich public and private cloudenvironments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API formanaging the compute, networking, software, and storage resources. The projectbecame an Apache top level project in March, 2013.

More information about Apache CloudStack can be found at:

http://cloudstack.apache.org/ #Documentation

What's new in CloudStack 4.9:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-releas e-notes/en/4.9.1.0/about.html

The 4.9.1.0 release notes include a full list of corrected issues, as wellas upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can befound at:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-releas e-notes/en/4.9.1.0

The official installation, administration and API documentation for
each release are available on our Documentation Page:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/

# Downloads

The official source code for the 4.9.1.0 release can be downloaded from
our Downloads Page:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html

## Downloads

The official source code release can be downloaded from:

http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html


In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors havealso made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack downloadpage, and can be found at:

http://www.shapeblue.com/packages/http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/ubuntu/dists/ (packagesto be published soon)
http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/c entos/6/ (packages to be published soon)
http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/c entos/7/ (packages to be published soon) ###

      From: Rajesh Venkatachalam <vr...@yahoo.com>
 To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org" <ma...@cloudstack.apache.org> 
 Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 10:17 AM
 Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][REVIEW] CloudStack 4.9.1.0 announcement
  
Rohit, great start. Let me also go over this and update any other changes along the lines suggested by Tim. 
- Rajesh
      From: Erik Weber <te...@gmail.com>
 To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org" <ma...@cloudstack.apache.org> 
 Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 12:02 AM
 Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][REVIEW] CloudStack 4.9.1.0 announcement
  
Rohit, I believe his first suggestion regards the second paragraph in the draft for his example. It reads: "Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and private cloud environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for managing the compute, networking, software, and storage resources. The project became an Apache top level project in March 2013."
I believe Tim suggests that '... software platform that allows users .." should instead read ".... software platform allowing users ...".
Now, I'm not a native english speaker so I can't really explain why that this, but this is how I understood his comment/suggestion.
-- Erik

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Rohit Yadav <ro...@shapeblue.com> wrote:

Hi Tim,
Thanks for reviewing; I've few comments:
- I don't understand what your first suggestion.- I'll add that it's a maintenance release on the LTS branch/release.- This is only an announcement, the information on what got changes, added/removed/fixed need to go into release notes. We can have a link to release notes and upgrade notes in the announcements though.
Regards.
rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com 
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    From: Tim Mackey <tm...@gmail.com>
Sent: 16 December 2016 22:11
To: marketing@cloudstack.apache. org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][REVIEW] CloudStack 4.9.1.0 announcement Great start, Rohit. Only a few suggestions....
- current dayjob wants "active voice" for things like this. Net impact is stuff like "that allows" now reads off to me. Suggest "allowing" for this example and looking out for other cases.
- since this is a maintenance release, it would be good to explicit about that (4.9.1.0 maintenance release)
- since this is a maintenance release on an lts, it's probably a good idea to explicitly state when eom is slated to happen. Idea being to save someone from hunting for it.
- "improvements" is both vague and subjective. Suggest creating a page detailing any configuration or behavioral changes which occur from stock 4.9 and link to it. The idea isn't to replace the readme, but to consolidate stuff you might need when debugging an upgrade


On Dec 16, 2016 9:10 PM, "Rohit Yadav" <ro...@shapeblue.com> wrote:

Please review 4.9.1.0 release announcement draft:
### DRAFT STARTS ###
# Apache CloudStack Release 4.9.0.1

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.9.1.0 release of the CloudStack as part of its LTS 4.9.x releases. The 4.9.1.0 release contains more than 70 bug-fixes and improvements since the last minor CloudStack 4.9.0 release.
Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and private cloud environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for managing the compute, networking, software, and storage resources. The project became an Apache top level project in March 2013.

More information about Apache CloudStack can be found at:

http://cloudstack.apache.org/
# Documentation

What's new in CloudStack 4.9:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache. org/projects/cloudstack-releas e-notes/en/4.9.1.0/about.html

The 4.9.1.0 release notes includes full list of corrected issues as well
as upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack.
Please see the Release Notes for a full list of corrected issues and
upgrade instructions:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache. org/projects/cloudstack-releas e-notes/en/4.9.1.0

The official installation, administration and API documentation for
each release are available on our Documentation Page:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache. org/

# Downloads

The official source code for the 4.9.1.0 release can be downloaded from
our Downloads Page:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/d ownloads.html

## Downloads

The official source code release can be downloaded from:

http://cloudstack.apache.org/d ownloads.html


In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download page, and as follows:

http://www.shapeblue.com/packa ges/http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/u buntu/dists/ (packages to be published soon)
http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/c entos/6/ (packages to be published soon)
http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/c entos/7/ (packages to be published soon)
### DRAFT ENDS ###
Wido and others -- can you help build publish packages on cloudstack.apt-get.eu? Thanks.
Regards,Rohit Yadavrohit.yadav@shapeblue.com 
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