On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 07:50 +0300, Quim Gil wrote: > The release team has announced feature freeze for GNOME 2.19 and the > roadmapping team has got a nice http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap in > place. In theory most of the content of the GNOME 2.20 release notes > could be written now. > > [After looking at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingTeam ] > Ken, Lucas, can you coordinate the production of these release notes? > > I have made too long proposals in the past.For this release I have > just one and simple proposal: make the release notes in a single page > with clear texts and lots of illustrations, linking the relevant > features to wherever there is additional information out of the releae > notes (i.e. news in the projects websites or in newsd.gnome.org ). NOT > repeating the same SVN structure of previous releases.
I also want to try putting everything on one page, but I still plan to use the docbook translation system. We have no other way to do translation at the moment, and it does work well. > Less work writing, formatting, fighting with the SVN and DocBook, > translating, reviewing in exchange of possibly more efficiency and > customer (*) satisfaction. > > (*) Taking in account these customers: > > Application developers > Platform developers > Software integrators and distributors > Key software deployers (i.e. public administrations) > Software & Freedom enthusiasts > Tech press > End users at large: not a target Jorge has already started this. Here's an email that I sent to some of the release-team team a couple of days ago, as context: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:30 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 01:12 +0200, Luis Menina wrote: > > Hi Murray, > > > > I have talked a bit with Vincent Untz and Lucas Rocha at GUADEC and they > > told me contact you if I wanted to help in writing the release notes. > > Have you got some information on where to start, who is currently > > involved in this, and when this should be started ? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Hi. Here is the release notes schedule: > http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseNotes > > We start that on August 6th, or slightly before: > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ > Lucas Rocha says that he will review the RoadMap soon, which will also > give us some information about what's been achieved for 2.20. > > Corey Burger and Jorge Castro will also be helping: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2007-July/msg00011.html > > If you like, you (all) could start looking at NEWS files and putting the > user-visible stuff here: > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ReleaseNotes Jorge has started a draft of the main text here: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ReleaseNotes/Draft That will later be moved to DocBook XML here: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnomeweb-wml/trunk/www.gnome.org/start/2.20/ Jorge, please note that I plan for us to use the Users, Developers, Administrators structure that we had in 2.14 here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/en/ You seem to be doing almost that already in your draft. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
