Re: 4.7 Release Notes

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick reminder and nudge to any lurkers who might like to get
> involved...
>
> We need to prep our 4.7 release notes before the 4.7 release ;-) That means we
> have a bit less than a month (current 4.7 schedule is release on 20 July, I
> believe).
>
> We're working on this in the promo team etherpads at:
> https://promo.notes.kde.org/14
>
> You don't need an account to make edits, but it's better if you use one (in
> case of later queries about what you wrote and to make sure you get credit).
> Mail me privately if you need an account. Thanks to Vivek, Markus and Nick P
> who have already put some work into this.
>
> This is a relative easy task - you don't need any experience really. Just look
> at Planet KDE and http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.7_Feature_Plan for
> details on new features that are /done/, write about them and note down links
> to screenshots that we can include. Don't worry if your English is not perfect
> - it is a lot easy for a few of us to go through and tidy up the language at
> the end than have to do the initial research.
>
> This might be quite easy, but it's also very important. The release notes are
> one of the most visible things we do and get quoted - and downright
> plagiarised ;-) - by news outlets across the web.
>
> If you make a contribution, please also stick your name in the list of authors
> at the bottom. If you have a question, either ask here or mail me privately.
>
> Cheers,
> Stu
>

It would be helpful for more technical people to go through the
various resources that feed this announcement, pull out the facts that
make 4.7 newsworthy, and add them to the work-in-progress. With that
information in place, I'm happy to edit the piece and create the Dot
article.

Carl
 
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