Re: Do we release SC or not?
Carl Symons <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Thomas Thym <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? Not necessarily. I don't think that strict rules like this have been suggested. It's more a matter of presenting news that speaks to an external, not-particularly-techie audience. Example: "Latest from KDE - performance enhancements, Marble routing and 1,538 new cross-platform Plasmoids") Carl > > >> >> 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" >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. > > Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. > _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.