Re: Proposal: "What's new"

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

I really like this idea, especially as we think about GNOME branding.

One of the topics at the Marketing Hackfest last week was around our branding and how we partner better with the downstream distributions. I think this gives us a unique opportunity for users to think of "GNOME" and seeing the work we're doing upstream.  This may also tie to another idea around how we can incorporate Friends of GNOME opportunities as well.

I don't know if this would actually make it easier to write release notes - it may make it harder as the release notes would probably have more detail than something like this, so in some ways we're adding work.  I really like how Fedora did their one sheet release notes via PDF for Fedora 12 [1] - something high level like that is what I would see here.  

Paul

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_one_page_release_notes

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:12 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:

>> Goals? Two really. One - to make it easier for users to discover newly
>> introduced features.
> I don't believe that most people care much, partly because they don't
> upgrade that often. This would be clearer if we had real personas to
> talk about.
>
> People who do care generally find the release notes online already.

Not really. A lot of people have no idea what GNOME is. They just
launch the application (or rather click on a document and the app
"launches itself"), see that it looks slightly different and sometimes
get curious as to why it looks different.

Several times in the past I've read through NEWS and ChangeLog files
just to tell someone what the exact changes were.

>>  Two - to make it easier to write GNOME release
>> notes.
> The UI clutter seems like a high price to pay for the slight possibility
> that this would help with writing release notes.

I wouldn't call adding a _third_ option to the menu that usually
contains "Contents" and "About..." clutter.

Even if it is clutter, we can still add it as a section in the manual.

--
Patryk Zawadzki

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