Hi, I've joined the release-team mailinglist yesterday in order to help out with coordinating release plans with the Marketing Team.
During past year, we have handled releases as follows: - 3 weeks prior to release we started looking at the changelog, usually prepared and maintained by Carsten Niehaus (this is a great help) - We formulated 3 keymessages for the release (more than 3 confuses the press, 3 seems just right to have them taken over as-is and have the messages not dilluted - We've prepared an announcement for the dot and sent it to translation teams Release day itself means: - Sending out a note to the press channel [1] a couple of hours before the actual release, so the press can prepare their stuff and publish simultaneously with the actual release - Update the websites - Send announcement to kde-announce (usually some hours later, in order to spread the load on the mirrors a bit This is very roughly the process of release promotion, more details can be found on http://www.spreadkde.org/handbook/release_promotion . Obviously, this needs some coordination with the Release Team, that's why I'm here. [1] The press channel is a closed list of invited journalists that receive short notes prior to things actually happen, so articles can be prepared in advance. Personally, I'll try to keep out of technical discussions, but will try to advise on promo- and marketing-related matters. If you have any questions, please shoot. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - mknod. war.
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