Gang, In about a month, Chrome 81 goes to beta, and DevRel needs to know what's shipping.
I am not currently aware of any v8 enhancements that affect web developers. If you know of one and think it even MIGHT be shipping in 81 or 82, no matter how small the odds, let me know. Holding text or articles for six weeks is trivial. Adding to the beta release post a few hours before release is difficult. Writing articles to link to from the beta release post is completely impossible. Though something may not be in the beta blog post this cycle, depending on what it is, we might publish the article anyway. (No promises.) That means your feature might get six weeks of extra publicity. If you ever want to know what's on my radar, follow go/what's-shipping. (I apologize to those of you not in Google. I'm working on making my list publicly available.) Finally, here's some background into why I'm asking for this and what feature owners need to do about it. So, You're Building a Feature. Now what? Web developers need to know about it so they can use it. Chrome Developer Relations has a process for that, but we need a little help from you. The big picture is that we use a release blog to post information about every new developer-facing or developer-affecting feature in every Chrome beta version. Developer Relations writes articles about some of these features. (We're not big enough to write about all of them.) This blog attracts the attention of the tech press. They write news stories about those features and usually link to our articles. If you miss getting your feature mentioned in the beta release post, you miss the best opportunity to tell the world about what you built. The Process 1. Write a good Chrome Status description. This is your first opportunity to communicate what you're doing to the world. Chrome Status autogenerates an Intent email for you, but the summary is public. If you write this well, it will appear as-is in the beta release post later. You can find a few guidelines here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QIkz0ZsVPkK8JL50uCiFSPTDNEsJ7aMpQ-Q99nhjqsQ/edit?usp=sharing> . 2. Feature freeze (four weeks before beta): Let Developer Relations know that you plan to ship your feature in the upcoming beta. (See Contacts <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diiM03RAwGGykBFcjIPAOeLuel_3spt8G_c11Ei3-50/edit#heading=h.ms1o95t5g7zm>, below.) Inform us no matter how small the chance of shipping. Waiting until you know for sure does us no favor. Preparing for a released feature at the last minute is difficult. Holding back text for a feature that wasn't released is trivial. If you're not sure that something is shipping you won't and probably shouldn't update your Chrome Status entry. But you must tell us. 3. You may be asked at some point to review a longer article for technical accuracy. Developer Relations is a small group. We don't have the resources to write about everything. That's it. Your communication responsibilities are complete. If you want to confirm that something is on our radar follow go/what's-shipping <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/155euqrhdqVhtbAID7ydaUPjBstLIYZ4PJkpFmqJ6j-o/edit#gid=1093066458> (externally accessible with permission) to see what DevRel already knows about. What Happens Next? Obviously, that's not the end of the story. I threw a bunch of information at you at the top, which I'll now explain. 1. Between feature freeze and beta, Chrome Developer Relations creates articles <https://web.dev/blog/> and videos <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUYZLuoy1rq1aVMwx4aTzw> about the new features. We also draft a beta release post <https://blog.chromium.org/search/label/beta> for the Chromium blog <https://blog.chromium.org/>. 2. As soon as Chrome beta is released, the beta release post is published on the Chromium blog. A member of our team tweets a blog post link to @ChromiumDev <https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev>. What about Non-Google Engineers I haven't forgotten that engineers from outside Google work on Chromium. We want to give proper credit where it is due, but are still working on the most appropriate way to do this. We still want to let developers know about features you've built. Please, let us know what you've added to Chromium and we'll make sure it gets in the beta release post. Contacts Joe Medley - Help with getting the word out on your new feature. ( [email protected]) Paul Kinlan - Head of Developer Relations for Chrome and the web platform. ( [email protected]) Kayce Basques - Lead technical writer for Chrome and the web platform. ( [email protected]) -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/6367d3fb-afc0-4631-be58-e553c8caf421%40googlegroups.com.
