Re: 4.9 release notes

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote:
>> --- El jue, 19/7/12, Frederik Gladhorn <[email protected]> escribió:
>>
>>> Torsdag 19. juli 2012 13.03.21 skrev Sebastian Kügler:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > Just a quick reminder: 4.9.0 is at the door, and we
>>> need release notes for
>>> > that. I won't be able to work on that as I'll be
>>> travelling until one day
>>> > before the release, but I also haven't seen any work on
>>> that (might have
>>> > missed it).
>>>
>>> Quick reminder: we'll change the release notes to be a
>>> "normal" news.kde.org
>>> article. The reason is that this avoids duplication (having
>>> a stub on
>>> news.kde.org linking to the announcement page) and thus
>>> makes the site more
>>> manageable for the web team. It also means that it doesn't
>>> show up twice on
>>> kde.org (as news rss and the actual article). This will be
>>> the first
>>> announcement in the new style.
>>>
>>> This means you'll get the dot editors as backup in getting
>>> the announcement
>>> out. :)
>>
>> Not sure i understand what you mean, do you mean that there won't be no announcement at all (or just a link) in www.kde.org and all the actual content will be in news.kde.org?
>
> Yes, there will be an announcement.
>
> In the past, the main announcement has been made on
> http://kde.org/announcements/ with a synopsis on the Dot pointing to
> that announcement.
>
> Frederik and Ingo suggested that this was unnecessary, that a single
> Dot story would be just as effective, and that this structure would
> make things easier for website administration.
>
> dot.kde.org and news.kde.org point to the same content.
>
>>
>> Are you aware that severely limits the possibility of translating the announcement?
>
> No, I'm not. How are translations done now? What needs to happen to
> keep translations viable?
>
>>
>> I'm not going to fight against that, but if that is the decision, whoever made that decision should communicate it to our translator teams.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
>
> It was a suggestion to the specific players who have been involved in
> release announcements previously. It is now communicated. What do we
> need to do for this to work? The past 2 announcements have not had
> much in the way of translations (4.8 Persian; 4.7 Estonian, Russian,
> Ukrainian)
>
> Content is needed. Sebastian has pulled this together in the past. Who
> from the Release Team is doing it in his absence? Content includes
> release highlights (usually one general announcement and one for each
> piece - Platform, Applications, Workspace), screenshots, links.
>
> Screenshot guidelines needed...
> In the past, someone provided guidelines for screenshots (screen size,
> resolution, font, default wallpaper) so that they would be consistent.
> Would someone please provide these? What is the default wallpaper for
> 4.9 Desktop?

Are the past screen size, resolution and font suggestions/guidelines
available somewhere?  If not can they be found in the archive of this
or some other mailinglist?  I can put them on techbase (or userbase or
whatever promo typically uses for coordination) if wanted/needed.

thanks,
Jeremy

>
> We collaborate in an etherpad at promo.notes.kde.org. Anybody who will
> be working on the announcement needs to have access there...please
> tell me if you need this.
>
> Carl
>
>
>
>>>
>>> Greetings
>>> Frederik
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Is anybody planning to work on the release notes?
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>>
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