Re: Pre-release marketing and community management [Was: getting www.gnome3.org]

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

We didn't do this for 2.0 which fed into a lot of rage on a number of forums.  Nobody could understand why we were removing features or the philosophy behind it.  Because of that history, Gnome 3.0 will fall into the same cycle.  Let's hope we can avoid doing it this time with a little forethought now that we are a lot more mature project. :-)

So my concern isn't making sure everyone agrees or even gets it but rather that everyone who wants to can explain why we did it (or at least point to somewhere that does explain.)

Is someone willing to go through archives and talk to the people close to the decision to try to document the features and rationale?

Stormy