Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Santiago Roza
On 9/26/06, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 If there's one thing I regret it's that we didn't push this release as
 The big performance push ...


maybe because we didn't have any benchmarks available, i guess.  how
could we have them for future releases?

i mean what to measure, with which utilities, and how?
(if i'm supposed to compile gnome from source, don't count on me)


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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Dave Neary
Quim Gil a écrit :
 Good bits in GNOME 2.16
 http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/2031230
 
 Not yet del.icio.us user, sorry.

Gah. some minor feature enhancements?

If there's one thing I regret it's that we didn't push this release as
The big performance push - there was a wealth of blog entries,
performance fixes in the platform (Cairo, GTK+, pango) and focus on
performance in some key applications like Evolution. We really should
have made more mileage out of that - I can imagine headlines like The
same GNOME, smaller and faster with by-lines like If you've been
finding previous versions of GNOME a little sluggish on your older
desktop, perhaps now is the time to upgrade.

To my mind that is definitely a bigger feature than we will have more
eye candy in future releases thanks to optional XGL support in Metacity.

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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Dave Neary

Hi,

Santiago Roza a écrit :
 maybe because we didn't have any benchmarks available, i guess.  how
 could we have them for future releases?

The Evolution guys had (and sent us) benchmarks, Federico Mena, Ben
Maurer, Cecilia Gonzalez Alvarez, Phillip van Hoof, Behdad Esfahbod...
all of these people have worked a lot on performance for 2.16 (and
2.18), and have been publishing benchmarks on their blogs as they've
been going along. Did anyone think to ask them?

 i mean what to measure, with which utilities, and how?
 (if i'm supposed to compile gnome from source, don't count on me)

Ask the experts - leverage the expertise we have lying around to get the
word out (and in) - the marketing team is supposed to be the place where
two-way communication can happen, letting people outside know what
people inside are working on, and letting people inside know what people
outside want. If we're not listening to people on either side, we're
badly placed to give advice or communicate.

I'm sorry I didn't bring this up before the release, when it would have
been more useful. Let's just learn the lesson, and make sure our finger
is on the pulse next time, and give kudos where it's due.

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Re: About the 2.18 release plans (was Re: User oriented release notes)

2006-09-26 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, 

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:13:55 +0200
Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 We need a coordinator for the 2.18 release notes, the sooner the
 better. Be it Lucas, Dave, Claus or whoever wanting to push this
 until the release day.
 

I can sent reminder e-mails after the beta releases to a mailing list
if someone has a suggestion which one to use. Other than that I see
nothing else to do when coordinating this. Do I miss something?


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Wow - look at the KDE news volume

2006-09-26 Thread Dave Neary

http://www.google.com/trends?q=gnome%2Ckdectab=0geo=alldate=all

Even though our search volume is staying roughly identical to KDE? look 
at their news references.

We need to improve at this, the way the KDE promotion team have. That 
means a CRM (on its way, honest) and a really regular feed of 
information from inside the organisation to outside. Not just biannual 
press releases for the new versions, but announcements for new advisory 
board members, the GNOME embedded forum (when Jeff thinks it's reached 
the maturity that there's something to announce), initiatives like WSOP, 
anything  everything. See what's buzzing GNOME hackers, and throw out 
an email to see if it buzzes up others too.

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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, Dave!

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:19:36 +0200
Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The problem with that page is:
   1. technical focus, rather than user focus (here are operations
 which are faster, rather than Here are high-level usecases which
 are faster)
   2. The language is pretty tame. We have a headline that says 
 performance tweaks - a tweak to me is turning a screw in your
 motor, it's not dramatically improving anything
   3. It's not in the final release notes at all, not even as a
 footnote
 

I agree with some of your points.

However, my point was that such a page was planned; for the first time
in the history of GNOME release notes, AFAIK. In the old model of
concentrating on user visible stuff, performance improvements would
have gotten a paragraph, at best.

Now, it's a permanent part -- at least, if there's enought to write
about. And documenting the efforts on a regular schedule is probably
more effective in the long run, anyway.

Btw, before you critize the user relevance you should have seen the
raw material. Also read the discussion about user relevance in
general, here on the list.

[snip]

 
 My point is, this was being talked about on pgo for months, people
 like Jono Bacon were raving about our performance work, and a little
 more effort could have gone into explaining that in a way that made
 real the benefits of the increased performance (and even more, the
 effort put into it).
 

There's a lot of stuff people talk about on pgo. What do you think?
That release notes writers have nothing better to do than taking notes
about stuff developers say somewhere on the Internet?

There was a wiki page dedicated to list changes worth mentioning in the
release notes. In my book, if it wasn't mentioned on the wiki page, it
gets ignored -- especially if the job was agreed upon on bloody week
before deadline! Compare to feature request not made in bugzilla.

So? Did any of those guys you mentioned enter a description on the wiki
page? Not that I know.

(As a site note, I didn't get the memo about OpenOffice becoming a part
of GNOME. A link would be welcome!  ;-)  )

However. If you don't want this to happen again, take care about posting
a entry in your blog when the next alphas/betas are published. Maybe,
more maintainers will then enter a description of changes in the wiki.
The page is here:

 http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes

It would be helpful if changes are described so that people without a
clue about the previous version would have a chance to understand it.
Also, performance improvements should be measured on a user level to be
more useful. Also, usability changes should be include an explanation
about the reason of the change.


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Re: About the 2.18 release plans (was Re: User oriented release notes)

2006-09-26 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:53 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
  Do I miss something?

Perhaps Dave's original email -
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-September/msg00096.html - 
and all what we discussed in the User oriented release notes and About the 
2.18 release plans, including my proposal to start working now 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-September/msg00082.html

I'm talking about a 2.18 release notes coordinator for the whole
http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseNotes process, from today until the
post-release. Otherwise we risk to forget again and then wake up when
it's too late (again).

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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Dave Neary

Hi Claus,

Claus Schwarm a écrit :
 This is what could be made after feedback from a helpful Evolution
 developer. Read it and ask yourself how many people are really
 affected by these improvements. I'm not sure whether that would have
 been sufficient to produce the headlines you're thinking of.

The problem with that page is:
  1. technical focus, rather than user focus (here are operations which 
are faster, rather than Here are high-level usecases which are faster)
  2. The language is pretty tame. We have a headline that says 
performance tweaks - a tweak to me is turning a screw in your motor, 
it's not dramatically improving anything
  3. It's not in the final release notes at all, not even as a footnote

Some performance feature improvements were mentioned in Feature 
additions (longer battery life for laptops), but nothing on performance 
improvements for non-latin scripts (see Behdad and Federico's Pango 
blogs), performance improvements in the platform (Ryan Lortie, Ben 
Maurer and Federico Mena's blogs - especially the file chooser - not to 
mention Manu Cornet and Cecilia Gonzales, Federico's Google SOC and 
GNOME WSOP students, and Michael Meeks's work in Bonobo), improvements 
to Cairo performance (see Macslow's blog), improved login time (John 
Rice, Federico Mena), performance of Evolution (pvanhoof, harish, 
Cecilia) or OpenOffice.org (Michael Meeks), Nautilus (Federico again).

Or how about the work that GNOME people have been doing on performance 
tools? Soren Sandmann's work on sysprof, or the call-tree scripts that 
Federico et al wrote to make those pretty graphs we've been seeing, or 
the work that got done on bootcharts because of a challenge thrown down 
by Owen Taylor (OK, tenuous link).

My point is, this was being talked about on pgo for months, people like 
Jono Bacon were raving about our performance work, and a little more 
effort could have gone into explaining that in a way that made real the 
benefits of the increased performance (and even more, the effort put 
into it).

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Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume

2006-09-26 Thread Quim Gil
During the GUADEC sprint I realized the obvious: we don't have a press
team. We should.

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 13:33 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
 http://www.google.com/trends?q=gnome%2Ckdectab=0geo=alldate=all

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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Dave Neary

Hi,

I'm feeling some aggression and defensiveness here which I'm going to 
put down to cultural differences. I will say, though, that we all have a 
part to play in improving things, and I think that this could have been 
addressed better if I'd brought it up before the release (mea culpa).

Claus Schwarm a écrit :
 However, my point was that such a page was planned; for the first time
 in the history of GNOME release notes, AFAIK. In the old model of
 concentrating on user visible stuff, performance improvements would
 have gotten a paragraph, at best.

There was a performance section for 2.12 too.

 Btw, before you critize the user relevance you should have seen the
 raw material. Also read the discussion about user relevance in
 general, here on the list.

Sure - I also commented on the resulting text and suggested tying things 
to user actions. Which I can't find in the archives...

 There's a lot of stuff people talk about on pgo. What do you think?
 That release notes writers have nothing better to do than taking notes
 about stuff developers say somewhere on the Internet?

Well, it's my primary news source to know what application maintainers 
are working on, and what is creating a buzz in our community. So yes, I 
think it is important for people interested in promoting GNOME (and 
particularly release notes writers) be aware of it.

 There was a wiki page dedicated to list changes worth mentioning in the
 release notes. In my book, if it wasn't mentioned on the wiki page, it
 gets ignored -- especially if the job was agreed upon on bloody week
 before deadline! Compare to feature request not made in bugzilla.
 
 So? Did any of those guys you mentioned enter a description on the wiki
 page? Not that I know.

I don't know what vision you have of the marketing team, but mine does 
not consist of if you build it, they will come. marketing is a 
pro-active task - we need to go to people inside GNOME to find out what 
they're working on, and go to people outside GNOME to tell them, and get 
feedback. Then we need to take that feedback, go back to people inside 
GNOME, and see what they think. Rinse, repeat.

So, do I think that module maintainers will swarm to a wiki page for 
2.18 just because I write a blog entry asking them to? Hell, no.

 (As a site note, I didn't get the memo about OpenOffice becoming a part
 of GNOME. A link would be welcome!  ;-)  )

mmeeks is a bonobo maintainer, and a lot of the OOo on Linux performance 
work is done directly in the GNOME platform (gtk+, pango, libbonobo, 
libgnome/ui).

 It would be helpful if changes are described so that people without a
 clue about the previous version would have a chance to understand it.
 Also, performance improvements should be measured on a user level to be
 more useful. Also, usability changes should be include an explanation
 about the reason of the change.

It's our job to get that raw techie information and translate/interpret 
it. Asking for it isn't going to make it happen. In fact, this job is 
the major task that the person who takes on the release notes/roadmap 
will have to handle.

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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Joachim Noreiko

--- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  There's a lot of stuff people talk about on pgo.
 What do you think?
  That release notes writers have nothing better to
 do than taking notes
  about stuff developers say somewhere on the
 Internet?
 
 Well, it's my primary news source to know what
 application maintainers 
 are working on, and what is creating a buzz in our
 community. So yes, I 
 think it is important for people interested in
 promoting GNOME (and 
 particularly release notes writers) be aware of it.

I think this particular point is a cultural issue, but
not cultural in the sense of nationalities...

I think it's more to do with the coder/non-coder
divide in GNOME -- whether this is real or only
perceived.

It's something I'm aware of with my work as a
documentation writer. You feel very much that you're
expected to do a lot of chasing up, and going to get
the resources you need yourself.
In a similar vein, I'd like people working on the apps
I document to *push* information to me ('Hi docs list,
I've just made this change to the interface, thought
you might need to know'), rather than me have to dig
up and interpret changelogs that mean mostly nothing
to me with only two weeks to go to release.

This sort of thing requires a change in culture rather
than new rules like there are already for freezes.
I thought about creating a set of policies for the
Docs Team, including what we expect from module
maintainers.
Perhaps the marketing team could do the same?






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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, 

a few notes:

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:24:03 +0200
Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 So yes, I think it is important for people interested in
 promoting GNOME (and particularly release notes writers) be aware of
 it.

There's a difference between being 'aware of it' and following it
closely enought to remember certain posts, you know? ;-)

But it's sort of interesting that you think others are required to
waste their time finding the relevant post among the, well, less
relevent stuff that's posted on pgo.

Can you provide a rationale why do you think the time of developers is
so much more valuable than anybody else's time?


 I don't know what vision you have of the marketing team, but mine
 does not consist of if you build it, they will come. marketing is a 
 pro-active task - we need to go to people inside GNOME to find out
 what they're working on, and go to people outside GNOME to tell them,
 and get feedback. Then we need to take that feedback, go back to
 people inside GNOME, and see what they think. Rinse, repeat.
 

I was just talking about efficient organization: to minimize the work
load for everybody, some agreements need to be taken care of. So, if
there's a wiki page to enter stuff by maintainers, it should be used.


 So, do I think that module maintainers will swarm to a wiki page for 
 2.18 just because I write a blog entry asking them to? Hell, no.
 

My suggestion has nothing to do with making anybody do anything, but
with *reminding* people that certain stuff needs to be done. And that
they are the ones who can do it most efficiently.

And yes: I hope, some people just need a reminder. Some may need two or
more, but at least blog entries about this will be relevant to GNOME.

 
 It's our job to get that raw techie information and
 translate/interpret it. Asking for it isn't going to make it happen.
 In fact, this job is the major task that the person who takes on the
 release notes/roadmap will have to handle.
 

Well, yes and no. Of course, it's true that developers should not
need to write the release notes. On the other hand, it's much work for
an outsider to find out why some changes were made.

Trying to interpret stuff will either lead to errors or it will lead
to more work for everybody: for the writer to ask questions and for the
maintainer to answer them.

Funny enought, the third possibility is to use the usual meaningless 
marketing lingo that some people here don't like.

Also, there's no reason for the responsible people to *not* take a few
more minutes to make some effort on how they describe changes. Of
course, they can continue to mention a keyword and hope the writer
understands it correctly.

On the other hand, lots of open source projects posts lots of changes
all the time. Especially professional writers have the tendency to
ignore descriptions that need additional time to be checked ro
translated. They have their deadlines, too.

So, maybe this is one important difference to the KDE project, and
Firefox, and other projects that get more news coverage? That their
maintainers make more efforts to educate users and journalists about
changes they make?

Well, you may find someone who like to do it the way you described.
Davyd and others made a great job here, and it was convinient to rely
on them for doing the right stuff. But what do you do if you don't find
somebody like that, anymore? Will you do it yourself? The next years?


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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Dave Neary

Hi,

Claus Schwarm a écrit :
 Can you provide a rationale why do you think the time of developers is
 so much more valuable than anybody else's time?

snip

 I was just talking about efficient organization: to minimize the work
 load for everybody, some agreements need to be taken care of. So, if
 there's a wiki page to enter stuff by maintainers, it should be used.

snip

 And yes: I hope, some people just need a reminder. Some may need two or
 more, but at least blog entries about this will be relevant to GNOME.

snip

 Also, there's no reason for the responsible people to *not* take a few
 more minutes to make some effort on how they describe changes. Of
 course, they can continue to mention a keyword and hope the writer
 understands it correctly.

OK - it's clear that you're saying all these things to people other than 
those who should be hearing it.

I'm sure Shawn McCance who leads the documentation project agrees with a 
lot of what you're saying. In fact, he's probably well placed to make 
suggestions as to how to improve things, or how to leverage the work the 
docs team are already doing. The i18n team are also made aware of all 
interface changes - perhaps they might be able to help.

And you should definitely be talking to the maintainers about this, 
rather than the marketing list.

And, again, ranting about this stuff won't improve the situation. And 
haranguing developers isn't going to make them any more eager to 
document their changes in a marketing-friendly way.

So, please, by all means continue this discussion, but continue it with 
the relevant people, rather than on the marketing list.

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Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume

2006-09-26 Thread Dave Neary

Jeff Waugh a écrit :
 quote who=Dave Neary
 
 http://www.google.com/trends?q=gnome%2Ckdectab=0geo=alldate=all
 
 Dave, you have to be a bit more discerning. :-) How realistic do you think
 those numbers are, considering your experience with our press coverage? It
 doesn't seem right, surely? Needs more investigation, right? Perhaps I can
 illustrate my point with a more robust comparison:
 
   http://www.google.com/trends?q=kde%2Cgnome%2Cfirefox%2Cmysql

So, from a quick glance, it looks like dot.kde.org is a news source for
news.google.org, gnomedesktop.org (for example) is not.


The lesson, it appears to me, is that we should be looking for ways to
have community news sources on news.google.com. No?

Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume

2006-09-26 Thread Tom Chance
Ahoy,

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 13:21, Quim Gil wrote:
 During the GUADEC sprint I realized the obvious: we don't have a press
 team. We should.

Well of course :) Three people with a whiteboard, familiar to all the 
contributors who are around, and with not much else to do. Write press 
releases, conduct interviews while everyone is in one place, etc.

With three people working full time throughout a conf you can put out a 
massive amount of content!

Maybe since the next GUADEC is in sunny Wolverhampton I could come and join 
in ;-)

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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:40:43 +0200
Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 OK - it's clear that you're saying all these things to people other
 than those who should be hearing it.
 

Ehm, pardon? You started talking about the *vision* and how the
marketing team is supposed to handle things according to *your* opinion.
I was just trying to make clear that this (a) is not useful, and (b)
was already organzied differently. Btw, organzied by others and not me.

So, I wasn't adressing developers, nor did I try to haranguing them,
nor did I rant about developers.

I just tried to explain why your point of view doesn't make sense, IHMO.

snip

 
 So, please, by all means continue this discussion, but continue it
 with the relevant people, rather than on the marketing list.
 

Yeah. I'm really motivated to do this, now.


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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Murray Cumming
 I'm sorry I didn't bring this up before the release, when it would have
 been more useful. Let's just learn the lesson, and make sure our finger
 is on the pulse next time, and give kudos where it's due.

Gathering, sorting, and presenting the release information takes a lot of
time and effort. That's why I recommended a schedule:
http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseNotes

The problem here, as far as I can tell, was that someone else (mostly,
Quim, I think) had to step in at the last moment. So I think we are lucky
that we had release notes at all, even if they weren't perfect. These
things happen.


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Re: Spreading the press release/release announcement and collecting press coverage

2006-09-26 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, 

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:21:34 +0200
Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 To my mind that is definitely a bigger feature than we will have
 more eye candy in future releases thanks to optional XGL support in
 Metacity.
 

Note that a performance page was written. It looked like this:

 http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen/ReleaseNotes/TwoSixteenPerformance

This is what could be made after feedback from a helpful Evolution
developer. Read it and ask yourself how many people are really
affected by these improvements. I'm not sure whether that would have
been sufficient to produce the headlines you're thinking of.

Of course, that should not mean that 'eye candy' was the best headline
to pick -- however, nobody was able to suggest a better one, back then.


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Updated Component Page

2006-09-26 Thread LeeTambiah
I have added a proposal for the required elements in the footer for wgo
at:-

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/ComponentSelection.

Please see the page and suggestions would be welcomed.

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Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume

2006-09-26 Thread Luke Stroven
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:33 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
 So, from a quick glance, it looks like dot.kde.org is a news source
 for
 news.google.org, gnomedesktop.org (for example) is not.
 
 
 The lesson, it appears to me, is that we should be looking for ways to
 have community news sources on news.google.com. No? 

It used to be included when Google news first launched, but was dropped
as a source some time ago. I re-submitted it about a year ago to no
avail. I will resubmit again.

Several months ago the site was completely dropped from the regular
search index. I see it is back now, but showing up horribly in the
results.

-luke

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news.gnome.org (was Re: Wow - look at the KDE news volume)

2006-09-26 Thread Quim Gil
Would it be debatable to solve the many issues we have around GNOME +
news in a general plan with a main objective: a one and only
news.gnome.org?

This is one of the items in the revamped General navigation bar. It's ok
to have the Footnotes as they are now there, but we can work on
something much complete before the 2.18 release.

Luke, are you aware of the early plans done around
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/NewsGateway ? It would be great if
Michael Maclean and you could push together news.gnome.org.


On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 15:02 -0400, Luke Stroven wrote:

  The lesson, it appears to me, is that we should be looking for ways to
  have community news sources on news.google.com. No? 

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Re: Wgo home footer RSS

2006-09-26 Thread Quim Gil
September 24th is the planned deadline for your work [1] and you are
mostly done. Congratulations! I think the results are excellent: we have
a cool homepage and... room to think the secondary pages.

Don't worry if there is still a loose piece in the footer or somewhere,
we will have a look at all this again when the time come to produce the
website.

The only essential piece I'm missing in the wiki page is the Hosted by
RedHat in the home footer.

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 18:51 +0100, LeeTambiah wrote:
 Quim, could you please confirm the date as to when we should have had
 the component revision finalised? I think it is October the 6th is
 that correct, which should give us just enough time to finalise this
 document.

[1]
http://live.gnome.org/data/GnomeWeb(2f)DevelopmentTimeline/attachments/2161wgorevamp.html
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Re: Pushing a wgo section (was Re: Screenshot link on frontpage)

2006-09-26 Thread Quim Gil
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 02:53 +0200, Martin Jeppesen wrote:

 Are there anyone that have reached the October 18th milestone, so I
 can get a feeling how it is supposed to be done?

Not yet, I'm still investing time with the last 2.16.1 details. Now that
you mention it would be useful to provide a template goal coordinators
can take as a reference, true.

  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/DevelopmentTimeline
 
 Where did you find this milestone plan? I can't find it in the link above.

Mmm, it's an adaptation from
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/DevelopmentTimeline#head-6e791f5e7e812f8e9885dd50a5bdb9bfa35b9c92

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