Re: The way forward

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:17:56 -0800
"Corey Burger" <corey burger gmail com> wrote:

> Well, congratulations on another release. However, our work is never
> done. Here are some ideas for the way forward:
> 
> During the 2.14 lifecycle:
> 
> -Cleanup the About GNOME page so it is actually pretty

Note that work has been done here already. Check GnomeWeb on lgo for
the proposed structure, check out gnomeweb-wml from CVS, and ask me for
the patches.

> -Showcase upcoming technologies such as Gimmie, leaftag and others.
> This should be fairly informal, but lets see if we can get something
> written for LWN in their weekly addition, as well as for the GNOME
> Journal

Submission deadline for the next edition is April, the 1st.

> -Cleanup /start/. It is awful and doesn't really tell me anything about GNOME
> 

This was discussed at least two times in the last year or so. IIRC,
Luis Villa said the page shouldn't contain stuff that needs change for
a release, and Jeff wrote something like: "I do this now!"

However. It would rock, if you'd like to work on the issue. 

> For 2.16:
> 
> It was a shock to me to see something other than the press release
> being sent to the gnome-announce list. Given that the target audience
> in my mind included LWN, I don't see the distinction. 

Journalists are different to community folks. Theoretically, the press
release is meant to be sent to potential press contacts with email (or
at least a link to the press release). We have press contacts persons
but I'm doubt we have a list of press contacts.

Again, we need somebody to organize this: Caring about the necessary
infrastructure, digg our press contact people to collect potential
press contacts, etc. -- that is: we need a maintainer for the press
stuff! Interested?

[...]

> 
> Also for 2.16, we need a better landing page off the press release.
> /start/ should be the release notes for the latest stable. Currently
> to find the release notes requires three clicks of text. Not many are
> going to brave that jungle.
> 

When you click wgo/download you are redirected to wgo/start. The
release notes are a mess for people who just want to know how they can
get GNOME.

And given the size of our webpages, three clicks is a really good score.

> All in all, a great release. Lets get out there and start marketing it well!
> 

Good idea! :-)

Cheers,
Claus