Re: Do we release SC or not?

Am Wednesday 08 September 2010 22:12:08 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 22:12:08 wrote Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Tuesday, September 7, 2010, Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > > that's the body, not the headline. our announcement can have the version
> > > # in the body as well. i don't think our goal should be to have
> > > journalists headlining our version #s when we could have them headlining
> > > our virtues.
> > 
> > Ok, I was just about to argue with this and went to look how Apple and MS
> > do things for some ammunition ;-) Um.. yeah. Turns out they mostly do what
> > you're saying and it seems to work. So for 4.6 it might be more like (lets
> > assume for a moment that PMC makes it into SC 4.6):
> > 
> > KDE Brings Your TV to Life with Plasma Media Center

Do we have only one major improvement per release? I fear we could discriminate all other features and fixes by only mentioning one in the headline?


> 
> sounds good to me.
> 
> the move from "trying to talk about everything at once, poorly"[1] to "trying 
> to tell people why they should care"[2] is important, if a little dificult for 
> us to get our minds around it at first :)
> 
> and if we have journalists that "require" the "all in one shot" approach, we 
> can also do an "SC" announcement, but imho those should be short, boilerplate 
> and boring, and not the lead item on the dot or our blogs. i think those 
> announcements would be mostly for our distributio partners, though, so they 
> get the appropriate "heads up". partern communication versus marketing 
> (something else i'd like us to eventually disentangle from each other.. but 
> one step at a time, right?)
> 
> [1] "KDE 4.5 Released"
> [2]  "KDE Brings YourTV to Life with Plasma Media Center"
> 
> 
 
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