<tl;dr>: I probably still don't agree but feel free to move the release date. I don't want to block stuff on my personal understanding / views.
On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 09:37 -0700, Britt Yazel wrote: > @Andre, as Rosanna pointed out, from a purely practical standpoint do > we really want our release announcements on social media to be > sandwiched between 9/11 memorial posts? That takes the wind out of > our sails pretty heavily if the goal of our Engagement and marketing > teams is to raise excitement. I guess that my (and many others') social media is not full of 9/11 memorial posts as stuff that I follow is not that USA-focused. > The other side of the coin is this, when chosing release dates, we > ~should~ try to choose dates that don't have a heavy negative > connotation. This isn't an America vs everyone else argument, I'd > make the same point if we were asking to release the build on April > 15th (the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre), etc. (Interesting... that would have been June 4th for me instead.) > A quick Google search of September 11th brings you to tens of > thousands of pages talking about terrorism and war. At first I wondered why someone would google a specific date when reading a GNOME release announcement for that date, but I guess your point is that people communicate about that topic on that date. > And yes, any day of the year can and will be offensive to release a > new version on for someone somewhere, but dates like 9/11 will > absolutely be offensive to millions, guaranteed. Would that in consequence mean that we should have a calendar with no- go release dates? Because if we go down that road I seriously wonder which other dates I should avoid when creating a release schedule. > So my argument is this. Even if you don't care about the mourning and > negative connotation that people have with that particular date, > purely practically, why would we willingly overshadow our own > release? I'm fine with moving the release date if people think that's better. Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | ak...@gmx.net https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ release-team@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
