Re: Do we release SC or not?

On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 20:27:59 Troy Unrau wrote:
> So yes, it is ridiculous, but it was due to us failing to clearly
> communicate that SC was not supposed to be a drop in term for KDE -
> but that we were trying to set ourselves up as a group (KDE) that
> creates products (The Development Platform, Plasma Desktop, Plasma
> Netbook, KStars, etc...)

Actually, no. It's a shortcoming of our terminology. It's simply not very 
practical to replace "KDE 4.x.y" with "Plasma, Apps, Platform 4.5.1", since 
that's way too long and steals space necessary for *important* info. It also 
leads to it being replicated by the press as "KDE 4.5.1 Released" -> back to 
square one.

Everything I've heard until now (and that includes the whole "SC" idea) sounds 
just clumsy and doesn't feel practical. It's doable in paragraphs of text, but 
it's pretty much impractical for producing headlines.

It works well if we're talking about specific products ("Plasma 4.5.1's 
Notification Area Kicks Some Serious Ass", but it's a real pain for our SC 
releases. (And worse, there are plans floating around for KOffice and Amarok 
to join the dance. "KDE releases KOffice, Amarok, Plasma Desktop & Netbook, 
other Applications and Platform" (wordy-wordy, no content as to *what* is 
significant about the release...).

(We all know that I'm not opposed to the re-branding, but it *does* annoy the 
shit out of me, because it's really hard to implement properly. And it annoys 
me even more that after _months_ of trying, I'm still not comfortable with the 
whole thing and regularly fail at writing proper announcements.
-- 
sebas

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