On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org>wrote:
> +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. > Of course, we can commit changes and review them in the staging site as often as we wish. As long as we do not *publish* them, no harm, no foul. HOWEVER, its dangerous to think along these lines since the *entire* site gets published, not just individual page changes, unless we can figure how to pick and choose. Something to investigate. > > -----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 > > [ ... ] > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." -- *Colonial American proverb*
