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Many projects have not yet announced their intention to
        participate (or not) in the Oxygen Simultaneous release.
      The deadline is approaching. For our Oxygen release,
        that's Friday, December 16/2016.
      Part of the reason why we require that project teams explicitly
        opt-in by M4 is to ensure that project teams are paying
        attention to the communication channel. It's also a quick
        reminder for everybody in the community to take a quick look at
        your plans to make sure that they identify potential challenges
        they may face working with you.
      Please take a quick look at the release participation page [1].
        Please also take a quick look at the "details" page [2]. 
      
      The details page shows the "summary" from the description that
        you've provided in your release record; this is the first place
        that we'll look for ideas regarding what we'll include in our
        press (and discussions with analysts) about the release. Please
        try to provide a short executive summary style paragraph
        at the beginning of your description (e.g. something that I can
        say when I'm taking to people about your project; it's hard to
        say a list of bullets): give people a reason to want to find out
        more about your project.
      If your project does not appear on the participation page,
        please first ensure that you've created a release record for
        Oxygen (with a reasonable description), and then send a note to
        this channel with a pointer to that release record and an
        indication of your project's offset in the build. There's more
        information in the wiki [3] (while you're there, please take a
        couple of minutes to scan the rest of the participation
        requirements document).
      
      I did scan through the mailing list archives, and I'm pretty
        sure that I've recorded all of the announcements made there. If
        I've missed you, please accept my humble apologies and then
        restate.
      
      Thanks,
      Wayne
      
      
      [1] https://projects.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen
      [2] https://projects.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen/details
      [3]
        https://wiki.eclipse.org/SimRel/Simultaneous_Release_Requirements#State_intent_early_.28M4.29
      
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        Wayne Beaton
        @waynebeaton
        The Eclipse Foundation