Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

2007/8/2, Quim Gil <qgil gnome org>:
> The release team has announced feature freeze for GNOME 2.19 and the
> roadmapping team has got a nice http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap in
> place. In theory most of the content of the GNOME 2.20 release notes
> could be written now.
>
> [After looking at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingTeam ]
> Ken, Lucas, can you coordinate the production of these release notes?

Yes, I can. I guess Jorge and Murray are already working on that too?

I'll make a call for a Roadmap update still today. This will make the
Roadmap more reliable as a source of information for the release
notes.

> I have made too long proposals in the past.For this release I have
> just one and simple proposal: make the release notes in a single page
> with clear texts and lots of illustrations, linking the relevant
> features to wherever there is additional information out of the releae
> notes (i.e. news in the projects websites or in newsd.gnome.org ). NOT
> repeating the same SVN structure of previous releases.
>
> Less work writing, formatting, fighting with the SVN and DocBook,
> translating, reviewing in exchange of possibly more efficiency and
> customer (*)  satisfaction.
>
> (*) 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

Honestly, except in 2.18, I think the releases notes has been quite
good and "correct". I would be really happy if we reach the same
quality level than the 2.14[1] and 2.16[2] release notes for GNOME
2.20.

--lucasr

[1] http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/en/
[2] http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/