On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:57 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Andre Klapper <ak...@gmx.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 09:59 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > >> We might struggle to do it for this release, but having a separate > >> press release and some kind of release notes for the release candidate > >> could be a good way to get the word out. > > > > Release Candidate = two weeks before the release. > > Oh? The schedule [1] says it's one week before the release.
Argh. So much for my reading skills. :) Sometimes it's one week and sometimes it's two weeks, also depends on external influences on the schedule (releases vs public holidays; no freezes yet when conferences like GUADEC or hackfests take place; etc). > It was just an idea. But I don't see why we couldn't aim to have > *something* (it doesn't have to be the full, finished release notes) > ready a week in advance. I agree, but I'm afraid that reality (and its manpower) will bite us. (We also dream of documentation freezes for translators. :-) andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
