-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 1, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Barry Warsaw wrote: >> In this case, there was a lot more work to do because 2.6 wasn't tied >> in at all. Add to the fact that I didn't have any experience with >> the >> website infrastructure made things a bit more difficult the first >> time >> out. I still don't quite have the 2.6 links working correctly in my >> local fs. So the biggest problem is really: what steps do you take >> when you need to expose a new major release on the website? > > Starting with the first betas of 2.6 and 3.0 we should also work on > official texts for the press. Other projects like PHP are drawing lots > of attention with their releases, even with bug fix and security > releases. Bad news are better than no news - a beta release is > *good* news. Great idea, and I agree. I won't be the person spearheading this though, but since it'll probably be me making the announcement, I'd like to coordinate with this effort. > When 3.0a2 was released I contacted two larger German IT news sites. > Non > of them even bother to reply. :/ > > I propose that we provide two official texts for the press. A shorter > text which explains Python and the most important changes since the > last > version in a few paragraphs and a longer, more detailed text like > Martin's text for the 2.5.2 release. > > I also propose translations of the shorter text to important languages > like French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. I'm willing to > help with the German translation. Cool, thanks. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR8mqVnEjvBPtnXfVAQIlkAP/U5z0xSaaDKbXxArncL49NpRTU5O431Wi +qdlnJQbApMtWMJyw14jXD0ovDlAFFK/71fGSUW7IxBvd+sWy9xJJpwydNz5xUVJ Ze3GYX0pWF0zDp9IIX9o3W9uotm9156lWe8Ahbsa0TWXN2AXyuRjyccIS7v2mU55 mHY6niZ8SbE= =OJl/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com