Fwd: 2.27 Release Notes - Call for items

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

Hi Marketing team!  There was some talk at the Marketing BoF at GUADEC about the role of the Marketing team when it comes to release notes.  I reached out to Davyd last week about how we could help, and as it turns out with his recent move cross-country won't be able to coordinate the 2.27 release notes.

For an overview of the process, please see:  http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseNotes
Developers will be adding their notes to:  http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven/ReleaseNotes

These will also be the first release notes created in git, and I will help get that set-up next week once I return from some business travel.

If anyone would like to lead this process, please let me know, and all help in turning the developers' notes into release notes is appreciated!  If you don't know docbook or git, don't worry - I am more than willing to take plain text and mark it up too.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Paul

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Subject: 2.27 Release Notes - Call for items
To: desktop-devel-list gnome org


Hello developers!  It's time to start working on the release notes for the upcoming GNOME 2.27 / 2.28 release.

Please add your notes to this page for changes to applications in GNOME 2.28:  http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven/ReleaseNotes

These just need to be bullet points, nothing fancy, and the release notes team will follow up if additional detail is needed.

In addition to what's new for users, I am hoping for detailed information for developers with all the cleanup done in libraries for GNOME 3.0.  Speaking of 3.0, any advice on how we start talking about GNOME 3.0 / GNOME Shell / Zeitgeist etc in the "Plans for next release" section.

A big thank you to the Hamster team for already including new features.

If you have any questions or comments, please let me know.

Thanks!

Paul