On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've read plenty of release announcements, but my reaction is >> different -- marketing make feel greasy and icky. I had five >> years of training to be as precise as possible in my analytic >> philosophy degree; I hate empty phrases like "50 new features". > > Oh, come on. I hate marketing as much as you do, but we are not > selling anything to people who don't need it. We've had this debate > many times, and you know how important I think it is to raise people's > enthusiasm in such projects.
I think the release notes should both be enthusiastic, but also as short and factual as possible. In this draft, I'd fold - Our online documentation is now generated by a new system that makes it simpler to browse... and much better-looking. It has never been easier to get started with 'Pond! into the doc item, and the doc item could be shorter. - This release contains vastly improved collision detection. Many graphical score objects will avoid overwriting each other, leading to far fewer manual tweaks. I think this is a good point, but it should be more specific: how is it improved, what collisions are prevented? as a matter of style, good things come in threes, so I'd add one other highlight. I'd also mention the page breaking improvements. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
