I think launching quietly and assuming that it won't be picked up by Phoronix/LWN/Slashdot could leave us scrambling if (when!) that happens.
It might be better to try and set expectations up front: when we are ready to launch, send a mail to gnome-shell-list, setting expectations for what works, and what is still being worked on, link to that mail from extensions.gnome.org (Like have a "learn more" link next to the Alpha/Beta banner on the web site), fix the problems that come up. I'm *sure* we don't want to send out a press release for a site that has been tested by about 5 people so far, however. - Owen ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jasper St. Pierre" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], "Owen Taylor" <[email protected]>, "Olav > Vitters" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 1:05:37 PM > Subject: Re: extensions.gnome.org release > > Sure. Just know that from checking the website's error log, there's > 15-20 people trying to guess random passwords each day, so I doubt > there would be a shortage of people noticing. Launching quietly also > gives us enough freedom in case we want to take it down for > maintenance or wipe all the data, which isn't excluded as a > possibility at this point. > > When the website becomes more mature, we can announce it then. > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:01:34PM -0500, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > >> My current plan of attack is to launch quietly and see how many > >> people > >> notice it. I'm expecting that the release will still be a bit > >> buggy > >> and broken, so I don't want to launch too triumphantly and then > >> fail > >> completely. > > > Can't we call it a beta release? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Olav > > > > > > -- > Jasper > -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
