Re: Release Announcement Brainstorm

Just a quick comment to start with. It was maybe foolish of me to put this in 
another thread (I explained the reasoning in first post). I think having two 
threads full of discussion is not a great idea, so suggest we save this one 
for notifying that we've added some idea to the doc/culled one etc

Anyway, I agree with everything you said below, I think.

On Tuesday 07 September 2010 19:00:37 Carl Symons wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 September 2010 15:46:47 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> >> I've summarised this, some of the previous discussion and some thoughts
> >> on some future options at:
> >> https://promo.notes.kde.jefferai.org/34
> > 
> > I've updated this with the discussion on the other thread, shortened it
> > and removed the daftest ideas, leaving us with:
> > 
> > - KDE's 4.x Release Day
> > - 'Microsoftisation' (using words like FixPack/ Patchday etc)
> > - Date based approach to releases
> > - No release numbers in announcements (I struggle with this for minor and
> > prereleases)
> > - Separate releases (we stop releasing the SC together)
> > - KDE Suite (just an alternative name for the SC)
> > - KDE's 4.x series (generic term for 4.x releases)
> > 
> > I struggle to keep up with all the ideas and pros/cons in the other
> > thread so I may have missed some. For me at least, this is a better way
> > of actually getting something usable that considers wording for our
> > three types of releases.
> > 
> > However, if you disagree then let me know - I'll continue to dip into the
> > other thread here and there but I'm lacking time for tracking all the
> > subthreads/repetition/circles
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Stu
> 
> The announcement headline should capture some key essence of the
> release in a way that is meaningful to the primary intended audience.
> The entire announcement can cover all the details, going well beyond
> the headline.
> 
> I think that the primary audience for the announcements is the
> multitude of KDE users and potential users. The audience is not the
> packagers (Kubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, etc.) or other uber-techies;
> they already know. So what catches the interest/attention of the
> typical person in the primary audience? It is not the release number.
> On the other hand, this may not be the case with "minor and
> prereleases". I dunno about those. Still "Get a jump on the next KDE
> Plasma" is a preferable headline to "KDE's 4.5.1 Plasma beta
> released".
> 
> My sense of aseigo's "Release Day" was that it signified an event that
> encapsulated everything that was being released at the same time. This
> was later compared to Microsoft's Patch Day. It is not an apt
> comparison, as the only resemblance between the two events is the use
> of capital letters. Microsoft has Patch Days for completely different
> reasons than KDE has release events. However, if every KDE release
> were a "Release Day", these would certainly come to resemble "Patch
> Days".
> 
> The KDE release schedule is based on an internal focus that provides
> benefits to the development process. The actual releases themselves
> are offered externally. Releasing a bundle garners attention from
> external audiences that small incremental improvements and releases
> wouldn't. A significant release is newsworthy & noteworthy. A series
> of small improvements are only partly visible, and then in comparison
> over time. In other words, no major story will be written about an
> individual user who notices "Wow, this KDE stuff is certainly a lot
> nicer than it was a year ago. I don't know why exactly, but I like it
> better." So presuming that bundled releases are beneficial to the KDE
> standing, what is the news as it relates to the then current release?
> When I read that Snow Leopard is "the world's most advanced operating
> system", it strikes me that KDE Plasma Workspaces, Platform and
> Applications are something more than KDE Release 4.5.
> 
> Carl
> 
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