Re: [Evolution-hackers] Call for Release Notes

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

Evolution developers, please do try to find the time for this. You
deserve that the world knows about your hard work.
 
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:42 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> Dear Evolution developers,
> 
> as usual, you've done a huge amount of work on Evolution during GNOME
> 2.19. But, as usual, we don't know what the new features, UI changes, or
> major bug-fixes are. Please do add something to 
> http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ReleaseNotes
> so that we can tell the world.
> 
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/trunk/NEWS?view=markup
> is pretty good, but we still think that you are the best people to
> decide what's really significant.
> 
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:24 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> > GNOMErs,
> > 
> > It's that time of the year where you guys can show off all the work
> > you've been putting into your modules.
> > 
> > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ReleaseNotes
> > 
> > At the above URL you will find the beginnings of the release notes.
> > Please begin to document the major changes to your modules on this
> > page. Our crack team of volunteers will then transform your geeky
> > bullets into something that we can show off to our users. I've started
> > that process here:
> > 
> > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ReleaseNotes/Draft
> > 
> > In the past Davyd Madeley did an awesome[1] job[2] translating the
> > release notes into something consumable by the Common Man(tm). Our
> > goal is is to use his notes as a baseline of what to do and crank up
> > the awesomeness of the release notes to the next level.
> > 
> > You can help by filing up ReleaseNotes with your changes. Those
> > aspiring authors in the crowd can also help by contributing to the
> > Drafts Page. We could use a few bodies to dig through changelogs, take
> > screenshots, etc. etc.
> 
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