Re: 4.9 release notes

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jeremy Whiting <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>

Screenshots were specified once upon a time. On this mailing list I
believe. I can't find them though.

Absent any well-informed opinion, it should work to do the following...
1280x720
DeJa Vu Sans font
Use only two or three colors for anything that's not a photo
default wallpaper (anybody know what it is for 4.9?)

I'm pretty sure that Nuno had specifications that would work best.

Carl
>>
>> 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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