Fwd: Release notes urgent plan

["Quim Gil" <qgil gnome org>]

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From: Gervais Mulongoy <gervais mulongoy gmail com>
Date: Mar 2, 2007 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: Release notes urgent plan
To: Quim Gil <qgil gnome org>


I take that back, just had a short chat with Thilo and I have an idea:
focus on the developer and the work cycle of the developer, which
includes writing code, taking notes or keeping task lists (tomboy and
its bullets), doing presentations (without xscreensaver interrupting
all the time) etc etc. I will have a working draft completed before
sunday evening. If i write in this way, it makes Thilo's job of
writing the release notes for foresight distro even easier.

-Gervais.


On 3/1/07, Gervais Mulongoy <gervais mulongoy gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Q:
>
> I am not sure how to boil down this release into 5 hot topics. Where does one get that information?
>
> But most of the improvements seem to be leaning towards bring the user experience to some sort of Gnome ideal 
> of simplicity and functionality.
>
> Assuming the notes that have been posted http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes are accurate 
> and up to date, and the NEWS and Changelog from the release candidates, I planned on finishing my draft by 
> this sunday evening. You can already seem where I am heading if you look here: 
> http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes/Draft.
>
> Thanks for keeping me focused on this.
>
>
>
> On 3/1/07, Quim Gil <qgil gnome org> wrote:
> > Gervais, how is your progress? We are approaching the red alert.
> >
> > Have you identified the 5-6 hot topics of this release? Your bet for
> > the main one? Share your thoughts as soon as possible, no matter how
> > unfinished they are.
> >
> > Once the release notes are finished we migrate them to DocBook and
> > then the i18n team translates them into *a lot* of languages. This is
> > why we need to have a text delivered several days before the release.
> >
> > In other words, we need to have the text finished by... the end of
> > Monday. Per haps we can extend 1-2 days more, anything beyond that is
> > red-red alert.
> >
> > Gervais, I recommend you to come up with these bare ideas like *now*
> > and then let us help you with improvements. There is some experienced
> > GNOMErs around and they can provide concise advice. The only good
> > thing of not having time is that we won't discuss much.
> >
> > What can we do in a little more than a weekend? Write one single
> > brilliant page with good graphics/screenshots. Each selected item
> > would be a paragraph with illustration, then we can have additional
> > 1-2 paragrapgs summarizing other important sub-items. Then About GNOME
> > paragraph and links to relevant pages, being the first one
> > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes , where insiders
> > can find the details.
> >
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