Re: 2.10 release notes

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 21:15 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> > Yes, we couldn't get approval for real quotes in time, so we had to
> > make up some generic quotes that the individuals could not possible
> > disagree with.
> > 
> 
> Who's doing these approvals?

The people who are quoted.

> > >  * Concentrate on a short list of exciting topics, not a boring list
> > >  of
> > > stuff that's new.
> > 
> > But this is all about what's new.
> > 
> > >  Example: "The ability to develop GNOME software in
> > > C++, Java, Perl, and Python, as well as C." This reads as if it's
> > > usual to be able to use all these languages. AFAIK,  this is not the
> > > case. I miss the news factor in such sentences.
> > 
> > I don't quite understand. Maybe you could suggest a rewording. 
> > 
> 
> Yes, sure. But it's too much news. The GNOME 2.8 release had three
> exciting points: Evolution, the platform bindings package,

The bindings were not a major user visible feature, and their inclusion
in the release process does not even make that much difference to
developers.

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