On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:28 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > Now, a question. We typically keep the release notes secret until the > release itself. At least one member of the press has told me that this > makes it quite difficult for him to cover GNOME releases, since there > is little information about the release until it is actually out. > > Is there a way we can disclose what will be in the release prior to > release day itself? Maybe the release notes could be made public with > the release candidate, for example? It would be really useful to know > what other projects do in this regard.
I don't have any opinion on this. In the past we've been having a password protection, but we could drop that and add a "This is not the final version, things might be wrong and change" header - same as on https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/ReleaseNotes . > One other thing that we've spoken about is moving away from the > library/documentation format for the release notes. Hosting them > directly on gnome.org would give us a lot more freedom in terms of how > we present the notes What would you like to see that Mallard cannot do? > (so they would look more like the GNOME 3 page > [2], for example). I was thinking of switching from Docbook to Mallard for 3.6 (I didn't have time to prepare this for 3.4 already). The advantages of "GNOME 3 page style" are unclear to me currently, however I would first have to know what markup language this move would imply, plus if anybody would be actually willing to prepare this move. andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list