Hey Alex! alex diavatis <[email protected]> wrote: ... > I think that GNOME Release Notes should get some improvements. > > 1. GNOME Regressions > I haven't experience issues my self, but I read comments about tearing and > flickering in GNOME Shell, and those are known bugs in X that affect Shell > as well. > I also remember the ATi & GNOME incompatibilities. Shouldn't GNOME refer > those issues on release notes?
In general I agree that it's good to flag up known issues with a release (if it is something that has changed from the previous version). I think that Disks will be losing support for (software) RAID in 3.12, for example - and that's something we should mention. I'm not too sure about these video issues that you mention though... are they driver problems or do they belong to the shell? Are they new for 3.12? > Additionally release notes maybe should refer some of the things that are > you going to work on the next version of GNOME. > This is different than 3.14 feature list, and it could include optimizations > and improvements on the things that you didn't manage to include in 3.12 > cycle. As you mention, we've traditionally had a "things to look forward to" section. In general I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this, partly because it is difficult to predict what will be in the next release, and partly because users already have to wait to actually get their hands on the new release that is described in the notes - this release + 1 is such a long way away for many people... Do you have any examples of things we should be mentioning? > 2. GNOME Minimum and Recommended Systems > What are GNOME minimum hardware requirements and what is a recommended > system to run GNOME 3.12? Where GNOME runs? Screen sizes? Touch Screens? > This can be different than what distros propose as minimum and recommended > hardware. In the past we have often struggled to get definite answers for things like CPU or memory requirements. There are a lot of variables, and in general we try to make GNOME compatible with the vast majority of modern "desktop" hardware. Maybe we could mention specific classes of device, like netbooks, laptops, desktops, convertibles, etc. That said, maybe this is something for gnome.org rather than the release notes? The notes are mostly about what has changed, rather than standard guidelines... > 3. Get GNOME Page > http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ > > This page is poor and outdated. Furthermore advertising GNOME 3.12 in the > gnome.org and pointing users to distros that are using older versions of > GNOME, > without referring anything is awkward. I totally agree! Thanks for flagging this up; let's try and have a look at it before the release. > 4. Where Release Notes are? > http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ > > I can't find any release notes about 3.10. Google gives me that: > https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/ Yes good point. It would be really good to link to the latest release notes from the GNOME 3 page. > Which says that Wayland is a new feature on GNOME 3.10?! Not quite... it says "3.10 introduces experimental Wayland support, which allows GNOME as well as GNOME applications to be run using Wayland. This is an important milestone on the road to full Wayland adoption, and will let developers test their software with Wayland." > Maybe you should revisit the whole process of release notes starting from > 3.12 cycle ;) I'm not sure that the whole process is a problem as such, but certainly things can always be improved and there are some good suggestions here. Please keep your ideas coming; it really is valuable! Thanks, Allan _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
