Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

["Quim Gil" <qgil gnome org>]

On 8/2/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

> I also want to try putting everything on one page, but I still plan to
> use the docbook translation system. We have no other way to do
> translation at the moment, and it does work well.

Yes, yes, I wasn't questioning the use of DocBook. I only meant that
creating one page per language + external links gives less work with
DocBook than creating the 5-6 we have done until now.


> > (*) Taking in account these customers:
> >
> > Application developers
> > Platform developers
> > Software integrators and distributors
> > Key software deployers (i.e. public administrations)
> > Software & Freedom enthusiasts
> > Tech press
> > End users at large: not a target

Please don't overlook the targeted audience of the release notes I'm
proposing here (specially the last line with the "not a target"). It
contradicts radically what we have been doing until now, and what
seems to be still the current plan.


> Jorge has started a draft of the main text here:
> http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ReleaseNotes/Draft

"The intended audience is the typical end-user."
"For Administrators"

I think we have been doing this mistake for so long. The day we
release GNOME 2.20 it is interesting for developers (the current GNOME
developers, the wider GTK+ context, the free software context and
other developers specialized in non-free environments increasingly
interested in what we do). It is also interesting for distros, OEMs,
engineers involved in big deployments with intense/customized use of
GNOME,  power users and the specialized press.

Not the typical end user and probably not the average sysadmin either,
since they are following the distros (if they do follow them).


> Jorge, please note that I plan for us to use the Users, Developers,
> Administrators structure that we had in 2.14 here:
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/en/
> You seem to be doing almost that already in your draft.

I think this is a way to repeat the same mistakes every six months.
One page with the main flashes. There are not so many, we can create a
good effect in a single shot but split the message in different pages
(most of them with almost void content) is a waste of energy that
makes nobody happy.

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Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org