Re: GNOME Release Process graphic on gnome.org

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

People that I talk to are often very interested in GNOME's 6 month release cycle as it's pretty unusual for open source projects. Plus it's interesting to users to know when the next release is coming out, when their bug reports might have a chance of getting added, etc.

So I thought it would be good to highlight, especially for people that aren't really familiar with GNOME. And if I were on www.gnome.org, and wanted to know more about GNOME, what it is, what's in the next release, etc, that's where I'd click.

Also more people are likely to look at a graphic than read the whole list of features. (Plenty of people will read the whole list, but they are the people likely to already know more about GNOME.)

So I don't think it needs to be the first thing they see. But I think we should put it somewhere in an "about GNOME" or "about how GNOME works" type place.

Stormy

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 08:10 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I think it should be some place newcomers to the homepage will find it
> quickly.

Why should it be as (or more than) interesting than the list of latest
new features, for an ordinary user It's interesting, as are many things,
but not everything should be, or can be, the first thing people see.

The 2.24 release notes are finished and translated. Adding stuff to it
afterwards is generally difficult.

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