Re: Press release for 2.20?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 23:58 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Elijah Newren wrote:
> > On 9/4/07, Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Murray Cumming wrote:
> > >     
> > > > I still don't see one apart from the usual "many usability
> > > > improvements". "10 years of GNOME. 10 GNOME 2.x releases in 5 years"?
> > > >       
> > > It's a nit, feel free to slap me...
> > >
> > > 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, ..., 2.20 = 11 releases in 5 years. 2.0 came out in June
> > > 2002.
> > >     
> >
> > Slap!  Now, it's your turn to slap me as I be even nittier...There
> > have only been 10 GNOME 2.x releases in the last five years, as 2.0
> > came out before September 4, 2002.
> >
> > :-)
> >   
> So we're going for this?

Probably not unless we want everyone to discuss our numerical error
instead of talking about how wonderful we are.

> I think I need to start drawing a splash screen for the w.g.o frontpage, 
> so it would be nice to have a agreement on this.
> The ten-theme is nice, ten years of freedom, ten releases in five years!
> Something cool could be written about our steady release schedule, that 
> other successful project have then copied from us and stuff like that, 
> always nice to brag about... :)

We've been saying it for years, and we are now famous for it. I don't
see much need to keep going on about it.

Something more general and user-centric is probably appropriate.

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