Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

[Alex Hudson <home alexhudson com>]

Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le samedi 12 juillet 2008, à 22:28 +0200, Dave Neary a écrit :
>   
> > I've already started to see a lot of bullshit about the GNOME 3.0
> > announcement and I think it would be useful for a GNOME release team
> > press release announcing our plans for the 3.0 release [..]
>
> Yeah, we discussed this with Stormy. Definitely something to do.
> Also, I think we can start some document for the community, and some
> FAQ. Maybe also some slides that people can re-use to explain things.
>   

I would actually advocate taking a more non-document approach to this. 
So, although I see value in a press release, that's kind of a one-shot 
thing, and probably what's needed is a resource that people can point to 
again and again.

Something pretty prominent on gnome.org would be better, like 
gnome.org/3 or something, almost like a kind of "what's new" but looking 
forward, with mock-ups where appropriate and that kind of thing.

I think the bullshit is probably a direct result of not much information 
being out - for those of us not at GUADEC there's very little you can 
say about gnome 3 other than the date and the Project Ridley stuff. 
Understandable in a way, really, and promising: people don't speculate 
about stuff they don't care about.

Cheers,

Alex.