Re: Do we release SC or not?

On Monday, September 6, 2010, Sebastian Kügler 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?)

in addition to what Carl said, if we end up releasing more things in tandem it 
starts to get awkward no matter what we do. imagine making a beta of 4.6 
available on the same day we release a 4.5.x, if nothing else to try and get 
more people aware of the beta cycles; or releasing bug fix updates of koffice 
in tandem with SC updates. these are more likely to happen as we progress, i 
think, and we'd be better off having a way of talking about release days in 
terms of benefit rather than version #s.

from a purely marketing POV, version #s are jargon that is almost meaningless 
for anyone but the well-informed. our headlines should not be touting a 
version number (that can appear in the body of the text) but _why_ someone 
should care about this new release.

of course, unless our releases are simply uninteresting and only there so that 
those who have older versions can install a newer one ;)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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