+1 I am not disagreeing with Drew. I am agreeing that it is important to shed critical path wherever possible.
Because there are different contributors involved, the critical path that Drew sees is not impacted by folks working on getting the site rebranded and managing whatever the recognizable critical paths are in prepping the site before the 3.4 release. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 14:27 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [BUG] AOO cannot be installed [ ... ] The number of people who visit the website right now == small The number of people who will visit the website when we have a 3.4 release == very large The number of users who will even notice work-in-progress with the rebranding before 3.4 releases == a fraction of small The number of users who will be harmed by work work-in-progress with the rebranding before 3.4 releases == zero The effort to enable staging of rebranding so it all shows up on the website for the first time coordinated with the 3.4 release == more than zero The effort to include mention of the rebranding along with other communications about the 3.4 release when it happens == almost zero Volunteering to help with rebranding communications when the time comes and to help with rebranding on the web site now == Rob Volunteering to set up staging for the rebranding so it can be flipped on with a switch later == ? Remember, when we get close to the 3.4 release, we're all going to be very busy with other things, both anticipated and not anticipated. The stuff that can be done now should be done now. You don't want to end load tasks like this. What is easy to do, and has practically the same impact, is to delay blog posts, and other far-reaching announcements of the rebranding until the 3.4 release comes out. My $0.02 -Rob [ ... ]
