I will help with the GNOME wiki and stuff too On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 00:43 -0700, Sankar P wrote: > > > > > > In a few months we have a release. That means there is work to do. > > > > > > Take this bug for example: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659659 > > > > > > Yes, we need to come up with a list of top features for the 11.4 release. > > This > > > ain't an easy task, taking up a serious amount of time and discussion. > > > Once > > it > > > is done, a draft announcement can be made as well as other things. > > > > We need to come with the features? Why isn't this reported to us by > > the sub-projects? > > Example... KDE reports their features, GNOME reports their features, > > and so on... > > > > It is one of the agenda items in today's meeting to discuss about GNOME > Features from openFATE. Also, we (try to) maintain a list at: > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_features for next release. > > During the 11.3 release, For the release notes, we gathered this "list of new > things" from the individual team(s) via IRC itself. IIRC, I gave it for > GNOME, Bille for KDE, and then we just got hold of some kernel people over > irc. So, we can repeat the same this time. I believe we may not need a > face-to-face meeting just for this. However, any face-to-face interaction > will do more good than harm :-) There are a lot of problems with travel like > Visa, cost, accomodation etc. However, I am not against face-to-face > meetings, I believe it is better to spend that money for something else like > oSConference, instead of release-marketing-planning. (my 2 cents etc. no > strong opinions on this) > > I agreee with Jos that a PULL model is what will work best for Kernel, gcc > etc. for getting the list of new features instead of expecting them to come > and give us the features. It is just because of the nature/style of the work. > > I volunteer to get the new features list (for gnome atleast), screenshots, > review of announce mail, spreading of the release link to reddit, digg, etc. > , just like last time. I will work with everyone who have volunteered in the > wiki. I think we as a team did an excellent job last time for the 11.3 > release compared with the previous releases. It looks we will be making a > even better release for 11.4 :) > > > [snip] > > > To do this, Bryen and me propose to have a meeting in the beginning of > > > Februari (either shortly before, during or just after FOSDEM). > > > > That means we have 1 month (the shorter of the year, February) and > > barelly 1 week and half. Ain't this too late, considering the first > > part of your email where we still have to dig the features ? > > > > > Bryen has set up a wiki page here: > > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest > > > > > Looks Good. > > Sankar > http://psankar.blogspot.com > >
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