On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Dave Korn wrote: > But I agree with this: a release announcement is just an email someone > sends out after a new release is uploaded, it is not a major PR effort
Let's not underestimate the effect our releases have in terms of PR and how much GCC actually is in need of PR. I know (us) engineers are generally not too fond of marketing, but it's more important than one might think. On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Joe Buck wrote: > But the RMs have enough work to do as is, so it shouldn't be up to > Mark to produce a beautifully written "white paper". I agree. My suggestion would be that we support the RMs by helping them create such announcements; for example, they could post them to our mailing list and review/update them here. On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > Actually, now that you mention it. I already planned to submit an > article about all the goodness of GCC 4.5 to LWN. Cool, very cool! Gerald
