Re: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16!
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 21:51 -0600, Brent Smith wrote: > In the future, we should set a specific timeline for the release notes > and a deadline for comments on a final draft, and a freeze for > translation right before the release. I second the request for a specific timeline in the future. I'd also like to request that the GNOME documentation team be included in (or at least informed about) the release note writing process from start to finish. If I hadn't seen Quim's blog post on planet gnome and mentioned it on the doc list, I doubt that very many of us GDP folks would have found out that help was needed. Congratulations to everybody on a great release, let's try to make sure that the release notes aren't done at the last minute next time! -- Ryan Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16!
On 9/6/06, Brent Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the record, the release notes were really a sprint this year - I > volunteered to convert the wiki pages to docbook, and ended up > committing all the changes to CVS, setting up the build structure, and > touching up and uploading all the images to be included (I obviously > missed two). I didn't know the links to the release notes were going to > be sent out today with the official release notification. > > In the future, we should set a specific timeline for the release notes > and a deadline for comments on a final draft, and a freeze for > translation right before the release. > > Additionally, we may need help to put PO files on the documentation > status page, so that translators can easily access them. > Sorry, Brent. We had become so reliant on Murray and Davyd handling everything for us, that we didn't really have things set up very well for taking care of the release notes when they weren't doing most/all the work. You never know how much someone else does until they get too busy with other stuff... (thanks Murray and Davyd for all your tons of work in past releases!) Anyway, you, Vincent, Quim, and all the others working on the notes for this release (sorry for any important names I left out!) are heroes. You all did a ton of work in a very short period of time. Many thanks. Hopefully we can make it a little more smooth and easier for next time around. And hopefully I remember to double check _all_ the links & images in the release notes before I hit send on the announcement email... Thanks everyone for your awesome work on 2.16! Elijah ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16!
Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:57 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: >>== >>Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16! >>== >> >> Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.16, the latest >> version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. >> >> Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort >> by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and >> accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, >> artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great >> release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor! >> >> You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.16 in our extensive release >> notes, linked from the 2.16 start page. >> >>All about GNOME 2.16: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ > > Not sure whether that's been reported before, but this page: > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/C/rnfeatures.html > has broken images. > > eg.: > The requested URL /start/2.16/notes/C/figures/rnfeatures-laptop.png was > not found on this server. > > Cheers > For the record, the release notes were really a sprint this year - I volunteered to convert the wiki pages to docbook, and ended up committing all the changes to CVS, setting up the build structure, and touching up and uploading all the images to be included (I obviously missed two). I didn't know the links to the release notes were going to be sent out today with the official release notification. In the future, we should set a specific timeline for the release notes and a deadline for comments on a final draft, and a freeze for translation right before the release. Additionally, we may need help to put PO files on the documentation status page, so that translators can easily access them. Anyway, happy GNOME 2.16 release! -- Brent Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IRC: smitten ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16!
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:57 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: >== >Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16! >== > > Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.16, the latest > version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. > > Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort > by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and > accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, > artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great > release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor! > > You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.16 in our extensive release > notes, linked from the 2.16 start page. > >All about GNOME 2.16: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ Not sure whether that's been reported before, but this page: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/C/rnfeatures.html has broken images. eg.: The requested URL /start/2.16/notes/C/figures/rnfeatures-laptop.png was not found on this server. Cheers -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
