Hi Shlomi,
> Why didn't you (or anyone) reply to this message of mine? OK, I'll start with answering this. Basically I saw the email hit my inbox just before starting work. The tone of the email caught me off guard and to be honest left me a little pissed about the attitude in general. So I closed down my laptop and took the kids to school and headed into work. The reason I haven't replied is simple. I, like everyone else, have a life. At the moment it's a very busy one with kids, household, loving partner, work, chores, gardening, a desire to play guitar better than the 3 chords I can do now... I am four letters behind in writing to my mother, I have emails from friends before chirstmas that I haven't replied to, I have so much to do in these matters, of which is far more important than many other things, but still haven't been addressed. I get home from work and generally after kids, cooking and tidying up will take a look at where things are with Padre, and spend a bit of time keeping abreast of what's happening for the coming release... but lately with what's been going on around the house, I'd rather go sit in front of the TV, either watching it or playing a bit of Uncharted 2 to keep one step ahead of son (who is now more than one step ahead of me ). So basically it's all about what to sacrifice to spend time replying to an email where the tone and the annoyance clearly show. And to be blunt, your email wasn't worth it. I figured that I'd get around to it when I had the time. Time I could be writing "Release 0.56 the missing release notes"... So now you see why I didn't put myself out to answer your email immediately. > Please do. In the > meanwhile, I haven't publicised this new release of Padre in Freshmeat.net > because I can't just put "too many changes to mention them all.". You reap > what you sow. Sow.. reap.. whatever. These are just emotional weasel words. Lose them and I'd be more inclined to assist. So for the hour I have today to spend time on the laptop catching up, I'll waste it covering off on this email. There's only so much my loving partner ( who now thinks I'm the coolest thing on two geeky legs because of what I do ) can be expected to tolerate while we have so much to do around the house. > Hi Peter! > Why the exclamation mark? It's not much less than SHOUTING HI PETER... > > On Monday 01 Feb 2010 18:39:36 Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Peter! (and all). > > > > On Monday 01 Feb 2010 12:56:45 Peter Lavender wrote: > > > link: > > > http://perlwannabe.vox.com/library/post/padre-056-has-been-released.html > > > > > > Text follows: <snip> > > > The listed changes this time around are so numerous I'm not going to > > > repeat it all here. > > > > I find that very aggravating considering the fact that I'm in charge of > > announcing Padre on Freshmeat.net and that I need to put a summary of the > > changes in my announcement. > The work you do improving the visibility of Padre by keeping it up to date on Freshmeat is great. The summary of changes when a release is done is in my opinion one of the more time consuming tasks I have to do as release manager. Trying to be a bit original, linking to blogs or peoples journals when mentioned, wrapping up the changes in the Changes file in a way that a mixed audience will appreicate takes longer ( by almost 200% ) than it takes me to wrap up a release. At the moment I do the release at 2100 local time to me, so by the time I'm finished and get to shutdown my laptop it's getting close to, if not beyond midnight, and I still have to get up before 7 to sort out kids and the like before getting to work. I don't have flexible work hours that I can offset late nights with later finishes. In this release I simply could not bring myself at the time of the release itself to write about the changes in detail. When I do a release announcement it's done using vox.com's editor in my browser.. it's a royal pain to use to be honest and what you see in the dev list is a simple copy and paste of the text itself, which is missing the actual links, however if you notice at the very start of the email is the direct link to the posting on the vox web site. I truly expected if people wanted to get all the links that it would be easy for them to click on the link. > > However, it is also not a good trend from the > > marketing aspect of Padre announcements. You said "Check the Changes file" > > without even giving a ready URL to it, > The link is in the blog post. It didn't come through with the copy and paste of the text in the email. > and so you inconvenience people who > > wish to learn what these changes are and why they may wish to upgrade. Yes.. I agree entirely here. The whole point of the release notes is to allow people to easily see why they would want or need to upgrade. Marketing regardless of what it is it's for is an important part of the process. And for that I'll not slack off with a release like I did this time. > > I hope that you: > > > > 1. Give a summary of the major changes of Padre here. It's certainly my plan to do this, as I said earlier, but not today now, as I'm going back out to the garden to finish cleaning things up. > > 2. Next time, include it in the announcement. I've done a few releases now, and each time I spend a lot of it writing and linking to things for the announcement. To be honest I'll say I'm never sure just how much people read what I have written... with little feed back in any way, ( apart from when I miss something or in this case cheap out on the announcement details )... I'm glad to hear that in the end what I do prattle on about and what's put into ( or in this case NOT put into ) the release announcement really does matter. So I'll make sure that while I hold the job of release manager that I do better with the marketing side of things and include the major detail of the release. Pete.
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