Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-02 Thread Murray Cumming
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 07:50 +0300, Quim Gil wrote: The release team has announced feature freeze for GNOME 2.19 and the roadmapping team has got a nice http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap in place. In theory most of the content of the GNOME 2.20 release notes could be written now. [After looking

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-02 Thread Murray Cumming
Jorge has already started this. Here's an email that I sent to some of the release-team team I mean, release-notes team. (which isn't a mailing list) a couple of days ago, as context: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list

GNOME/SLED story

2007-08-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
He didn't have a preference when it came to Linux distributions so he tested a number of them. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) stood out for Giroux. It came with the GNOME desktop, which he regards as faster than most, Firefox, which is the company's preferred browser, and the Citrix

Re: GNOME/SLED story

2007-08-02 Thread Ken VanDine
This is great, but I actually wish he had more reasons to choose GNOME. Faster is just one of many advantages, oh well. --Ken On 8/2/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He didn't have a preference when it came to Linux distributions so he tested a number of them. The SUSE Linux Enterprise

Re: GNOME/SLED story

2007-08-02 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Jeff Waugh wrote: He didn't have a preference when it came to Linux distributions so he tested a number of them. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) stood out for Giroux. It came with the GNOME desktop, which he regards as faster than most, Firefox, which is the company's preferred

Re: GNOME/SLED story

2007-08-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ken VanDine This is great, but I actually wish he had more reasons to choose GNOME. Faster is just one of many advantages, oh well. I'm sure he did, but that was the most straightforward quote. Anyone up for doing a more in-depth case study with them? - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008:

Re: GNOME/SLED story

2007-08-02 Thread Ken VanDine
I think we should try to do a story on this for GNOME Journal On 8/2/07, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: He didn't have a preference when it came to Linux distributions so he tested a number of them. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) stood out for Giroux.

Re: GNOME/SLED story

2007-08-02 Thread Quim Gil
On 8/2/07, Ken VanDine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we should try to do a story on this for GNOME Journal To become at the same time a success story for wgo (we are just waiting to have a bunch of stories to open the section in the revamped wgo). Why not asking the journalist. He is

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-02 Thread Quim Gil
On 8/2/07, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also want to try putting everything on one page, but I still plan to use the docbook translation system. We have no other way to do translation at the moment, and it does work well. Yes, yes, I wasn't questioning the use of DocBook. I only

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-02 Thread Ken VanDine
I don't completely agree, as a distro maintainer that will be delivering 2.20 on 2.20 release day, our users want to read about it. We should write that content, not the distro. It is less interesting for users of other distros that take much longer to integrate the new version, but even those

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-02 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 8/2/07, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/07, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also want to try putting everything on one page, but I still plan to use the docbook translation system. We have no other way to do translation at the moment, and it does work well. Yes,

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-02 Thread Quim Gil
As the maintainer of a distro with a strong and explicit focus in GNOME you will appreciate a page where to point your users, yes. But aren't Foresight users falling mostly in the audiences I'm suggesting? Wouldn't they enjoy be treated as power users, developers and the like? This would apply to

Re: GNOME 2.20 release notes

2007-08-02 Thread Ken VanDine
Yes many of our users are power users, but we are also gaining quite a bit of traction in the new linux user category. Which is what we really want, the power users are easy to get. We want the new users to want to use GNOME and Foresight. I would be very happy if what we did was provide