Hi list, 4tionov (Christof Thalhofer) suggested in the Gambas-Club(.de) that Gambas (major?) releases could be presented in articles in different online magazines, as it happens with other programming languages (as I was told). I think this is one of the rare Gambas promotion ideas that is simple and potentially effective.
Now, I carry this to the mailing list for two reasons: 1. I'm not a commit log oracle -- and I think there is no such person: I cannot make a good sentence out of a bunch of, say, commit logs for gb.report or gb.web, simply because I never used these components in my life and don't know what certain changes mean. I would propose that developers *try* to assemble notes for release articles as they do commits. Looking at commit volumes, this shouldn't be a problem for anyone except Benoit whose commits we can examine later on. The notes should be something easy comprehensible, from a bird's-eye view on the component, one to three sentences, I guess? The release notes are a good start, but I fear they're not detailed enough and lack (historic) context, like "Why this thing? How was it before?". The complete Changelog is too detailed and lacks context most of the time. 2. If we have such an article for a release in any language, we have articles for every language, right? I bet there are also non-German online magazines out there... (Although maybe we shouldn't spam the same article to everything that resembles a magazine!) What do you think? I try to assemble some (likely really only *some*) notes about 3.6 tomorrow and Christof (who has professional experience) offered to do the editing/wording. Anyone who can help? Regards, Tobi -- "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user