Re: preparing to market GNOME 3.2

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> According to http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne Monday will mark the 
> end of the feature proposal & discussion period for the 3.1.x 
> development series.  Once we know what sorts of improvements are going 
> to be in 3.2 

We have a good idea of what's going to be worked on. Whether it'll be
ready in time is another question of course. ;)

> (touchscreen support, for instance?), 

Unlikely, by the looks of the feature page [1]. We're also waiting on
other parts of the stack, if my limited understanding is correct.

> we can figure out 
> what's most salient and who needs to be told about those enhancements, 
> and start prepping our marketing plan.

One thing that occurs to me - it would be nice to be tracking the small
fixes and polish that are happening. It is easy to forget these changes,
but they will be a big part of 3.2. It would be nice to have examples
and even metrics to talk about at release time.

There is a role for marketing here. The release team have included 'Fix
Annoying Things' [2] as one of the 3.2 features. This is partly an
exercise in PR, I believe. The ambition is to track and fix annoying
(and fixable ;) ) issues have been brought up in reviews and user
feedback so that, when 3.2 is released, we can say 'we fixed the
annoying things you mentioned last time around'.

If anybody has been following the reviews and knows of issues that have
been brought up, please add them to the page [2].

> We won't need as huge an effort as we had for 3.0, but we'll still be 
> happier if we start light planning early.  Five months away....

Allan

[1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/Tablets
[2] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/FixAnnoyingThings
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