Re: GNOME 2.91/3.0 Schedule Draft

[Jason Clinton <me jasonclinton com>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 16:12, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:

Am Sonntag, den 10.10.2010, 13:30 +0200 schrieb Andre Klapper:

> Am Sonntag, den 26.09.2010, 18:39 -0500 schrieb Jason Clinton:
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 16:10, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> >         A first draft for the GNOME 2.91/3.0 schedule is now available
> >         at
> >                http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNinetyone .
> >
> > Can we make the UI freeze two weeks longer? The Marketing team needs
> > more time to post-produce the 3.0 launch videos and get translations
> > at least started.
>
> Currently UI Freeze starts at Feb 21 (together with 2.91.90 release)
> which would mean six weeks until 3.0.0 is released.
> The request is to move it to Feb 09, 2011 (which would be after the
> 2.91.6 release) to have eight weeks.

No other feedback hence finalizing the schedule for 2.91/3.0.

The release team gives higher priority to the two weeks for UI changes.
GNOME Marketing team is encouraged to work with the GNOME shell folks to
get material.

I'm not 100% clear on how to parse the above paragraph but I'll take a stab at it. 

We don't need "material"; we need a finished desktop environment that we can jhbuild that will look almost exactly like the finished product. We're distributing screen casts on the GNOME 3 launch site which show off the Shell, Gtk+ 3 and its new theme abilities and some high profile applications.

The worst-case scenario would be any Shell look-and-feel or Gtk+ theme changes landing after the videos are filmed. If that were to happen, we'll have to launch without the planned GNOME 3 launch site being ready.

Marketing-team has made all of these plans public through blog posts, posts to marketing-list and on the wiki dating back to November 2009.