Re: Near-Final Draft: GNOME 2.30 Press Release - feedback needed!

["Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb zonker net>]

Hi all,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org> wrote:
> Second sentence:   The 2.30 builds on previous GNOME releases - maybe
> should be:  The 2.30 release builds on previous GNOME releases

Fixed by changing to "GNOME 2.30 builds on ... "

> For the Stormy quote does "excited" work better than "psyched"?  I would
> also add the word "automatically": sync my Tomboy notes between my
> desktop and laptop computer automatically - Tomboy has had a sync
> feature for a while, the auto-sync is the new feature.

I'll let Stormy cast the deciding vote on that. I avoided "excited"
because it's sort of a PR cliche. (The Bay Area in California must be
populated by software executives in a perpetual state of excitement,
if press releases are to be believed...)

> I'd recommend taking out the preview release of Activity Journal - it's
> not currently hosted on GNOME infrastructure (it uses Launchpad).

Should it also be removed from the release notes? I mostly pulled from those.

> Link to live media is:  http://torrent.gnome.org - should be available
> within 48 hours of release - I have an email in to Zhang Zhen (lead
> developer) and Ken Vandine to confirm, but haven't heard back yet.

Sweet. Thanks!

> Looks good and thank you for taking the time to put this together.

My pleasure.

Best,

Zonker
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