Announcements
Contents
First milestone/candidate for a release
We write drafts of announcements in the “ICU announcements” Google doc.
When there is no section yet for the upcoming release, then copy the whole section from one of the previous two full releases and adjust the version numbers everywhere in the copied headings and text.
Announcement for a release candidate
Adjust the release candidate announcement subsection with a very brief summary gleaned from the download page.
Share the draft as a link to the doc heading with the ICU team, invite comments and edits.
When ready, send to the mailing lists as indicated in the doc. Make sure to use bcc as noted for the “announce” lists.
Announcement for a new major version
Adjust the final-release announcement subsection with a very brief summary gleaned from the download page. Adjust the blog & tweet texts as well.
Share the draft as a link to the doc heading with the ICU team, invite comments and edits.
Share the draft as a link with the Unicode editorial committee, invite comments, discuss, adjust as agreed.
When ready, send to the mailing lists as indicated in the doc. Make sure to use bcc as noted for the “announce” lists.
Notify Rick McGowan for the Unicode blog posting and Ken Lunde for tweeting.
Notify Ken Whistler (Unicode) to update the ICU version & date on https://www.unicode.org/releases/
Put a News item on the ICU project site.
Announcement for a maintenance update
Same as for a release candidate, but start by copying the section for the last maintenance update in the doc.
Update the reference for ICU in the external sites
For freshmeat.net
- http://www.freshmeat.net/
- Login under the correct account.
- I usually search for: icu unicode
- Click on the project returned
- Under the ‘project’ drop down, choose ‘Add release’
- We have (thankfully) only one branch of development- choose Default
- Release info
- release focus: Choose the one which best fits
- Version
- Changes: be VERY brief, and include links if needed. Please read the other ICU4C/ICU4J updates to get an idea for how we are wording these. DO NOT use bulleted lists. DO use short ‘sentences’. Remember they can go to the release list and/or bug DB for the full scoop! Put the URL to the ‘release notes’ (i.e. http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/(version)/ ) in the changes list.
- tar/gz, zip: Put the FULL URLs to the actual files, here
- Changelog: Leave BLANK. This is for a single page of ALL release changes (Actually: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/ fits this fairly well.)
- License - leave at MIT/X
- mailing list: I set this to the main mailing list page. (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/archives/) Click ‘go on..’
- PREVIEW. Very important- Check:
- SPELLING
- links!!!!! Make sure they go where we want
- accuracy - version number is OK? Remember that this is an important PR face for ICU4C and ICU4J.
- Submit!
That’s it. Submissions take some time (<24 hrs) to go on. I guess they check the accuracy as well- not sure here. (Steven Loomis, 2001-06-14)
Other sites:
slashdot, newsforge, developerWorks unicode zone, developerWorks open-source zone, developerWorks java zone (send email to dWnews <at> us.ibm.com)
ICU sourceforge News - login here, go to News, Admin, and submit a news item as an administrator.
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