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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:45:27 -0700
From: Daniel John Debrunner <djd@apache.org>
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Bryan Pendleton wrote:
>>> Just a friendly reminder from your RM saying that Wiki pages for test
>>> results have been created:
>>>   
>> Dyre, might it be good to send a mail to the user list encouraging 
>> them to try 10.4 beta with their existing applications and test drive 
>> new features?
> 
> And should we also start to make the new release more
> visible on the primary web sites? For example:
>  - in the "News" section of http://db.apache.org/derby/
>  - In its own section on http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html
>  - in the Latest Release section on http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/
> 
> It's important to be clear about the difference between the
> well-tested and stable 10.3 release, and the just-emerging 10.4 release,
> of course, but still it seems like we could be somewhat more active
> about making the 10.4 release more visible and easier to find.

Just to be clear there is no 10.4 release until a vote occurs. A while 
back there was an ASF mandate that only PMC approved releases could be 
visible to users, e.g. on download pages etc.

Dan.