On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Izabel Valverde <izabelvalve...@opensuse.org> wrote: > 2013/1/15 Jos Poortvliet <j...@opensuse.org> >> >> Heya all, >> >> Many of you have helped in the last 3-4 releases with writing the 'feature >> guide' or 'product highlights' and release announcements. You know it is not >> an easy task - as a matter of fact, it's a huge amount of work. >> >> With 11.4 and 12.1 we had a reasonably collaborative process, but even then >> we had almost no input from the actual package maintainers (for whom it is >> very easy to record what changes there are in their software). Instead, we >> had to go through long lists of packages, trying to find out what is new. >> >> Obviously, this doesn't really work. I've asked (as usual) if >> maintainers/packagers will add changes in their software to the wiki here: >> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features >> >> but honestly, I don't really expect that to work very well. I would >> appreciate it if you kick developers you know, it would make a difference. >> If however it again boils down to a handful of people who barely know >> anything about the software having to go through all the packages, we will >> have to change how we work. How - I don't really know. >> >> Maybe we can change the policy on submitting things to Factory, like >> requiring a link to an upstream changelog on major releases or anything. >> Maybe you all have suggestions - ideas on improving this process are really >> welcome. >> >> The most important thing are of course changes really developed by and for >> openSUSE - even those we often miss, like ownCloud integration in openSUSE >> 12.1 (I heard about it 3 days before the release. Doesn't that make you >> cry?). Again - we need a way to find and describe them... >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Jos > > > Hey Jos, Hello all, > > I believe the best way to get the contribution of our > supporters/manteiners/pacakgers would ask them what would be the > easiest way to help us find what's new. Explaining to them that we are > somewhat difficult to get this information they might suggest in how > best to seek except in seeking > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features > > I know this should have already been done but maybe a new call to help > us a bit more... We don't want to give an extra task for them, just an > indication of how to look without disrupting their work. Instead we > suggest would be better suggestion coming from them. > > Developers make our gold and we will outshine :-D > > With a single hint coming now would be helpful. I believe they would do that. > > Just a thought, > > Izabel > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+ow...@opensuse.org >
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