Re: Do we release SC or not?

Am Monday 06 September 2010 17:29:25 schrieb Carl Symons:
On Monday 06 September 2010 17:29:25 wrote Carl Symons:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Friday, September 03, 2010 19:41:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> >> On Thursday, September 2, 2010, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-promo&m=128043108730686&w=2
> >
> > The idea sounds sound, but in practise to make it work, I find it sounding
> > silly. Not so much for the x.y.0 releases, but for bugfix updates, it's almost
> > Microsoft-ish. (Patchday, anyone?)
> > --
> > sebas
> >
> 
> Well, there are several ideas floating around this issue; "Release
> Day" is only one of several. For me, the key is to communicate
> something that connects properly with the audience (from a marketing
> perspective). To use the bugfix update example, how about:
> 
> ***KDE bugfix update***
> Today KDE releases series 4.6.2 updates that include Applications and
> Plasma Workspaces. While some new features are offered, the primary
> emphasis for this Release Event is to continue improving quality and
> to finetune existing features. These updates will improve the
> performance of earlier KDE versions, so upgrading is recommended.
> 
> Nothing Microsoft-ish about it. Facts, no vaporware, hype, cutesy terminology.
> 
> Descriptive headline that speaks to how users are listening
> Shared version number identifying the occasion--the Release Event
> What is included and why
> 
> Microsoft Patch Day has always occurred to me thusly...there are so
> many things broken and breakable that we are committed to providing
> patches monthly. Subtext - we won't get to them all, we hope to get to
> most of the ones that are really broken, we will probably get to the
> ones that cause us the most grief or hurt our revenues/relationships
> with our best customers.
> 
> This way of thinking is foreign to the way KDE operates.
> 
> Carl  

From my (business) POV I personaly woud avoid pointing to bugs and other weaknesses in a release public spreaded announcement. I would prefer to mention it as "quality improvements" or " performance optimation / update" or something like that.
(btw see the Snowleopard marketing.)

Just for further brainstrorming: Carl, you mentioned "KDE releases series 4.6.2". So the "product" would be "KDE Series 4.6". Intresting. I read about the "KDE Suite 4.5" after our 4.5 release day. Were these two termes discussed yet?

Cheers,
Thomas

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