Den tors 11 feb. 2021 kl 10:11 skrev Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org>:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 09:57:23AM +0100, Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
> > It is indeed a chicken-and-egg problem. However I would suggest to split
> > this "updating the website" into two separate parts:
> > 1. Updating the download page and possibly also adding a news item (with
> a
> > placeholder link to the release announcement) before the announcement.
> > 2. After the release announcement has landed in lists.a.o, update the
> news
> > item with a proper link.
> >
> > If the website is updated in one batch after the announcement someone
> might
> > receive the announcement, immediately heading to the download page and
> then
> > not finding the announced release.
>
> Yes, that makes sense. Would you have time to update the web site
> accordingly?
>

Sure, I'll make a suggestion in staging. Not today though.


> Having just run through the steps, I must say that our release manager's
> guide
> has a rather low signal-to-noise ratio in its current form.
> It may help to break some text into more paragraphs with meaningful
> headers,
> and/or perhaps put boxes around some of the details that don't really
> matter
> when someone is trying to get an overview of the procedure.
>

Since I'm new to the party, maybe I can try to understand the procedure and
break it up, and you can tell me when I go wrong?

Kind regards,
Daniel

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