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

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

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".

Cheers,
Dave.