Re: [URGENT] KDE Applications 16.08 announcement for thursday

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <3101904.nqNgyMV15V@xps>
El dijous, 18 d’agost de 2016, a les 17:03:56 CEST, Thomas Pfeiffer va 
escriure:
> On 18.08.2016 01:22, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dimarts, 16 d’agost de 2016, a les 1:04:11 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va 
escriure:
> >> Can anyone work in adapting
> >> 
> >>    https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.04.0.php
> >> 
> >> to KDE Applications 16.08 new features/changes using
> >> 
> >>    https://notes.kde.org/p/applications_16.08_new_features
> >> 
> >> as source?
> >> 
> >> I know it's not much but developers seem not to care much about getting
> >> their changes announced to the world.
> >> 
> >> In case someone has lots of time to find for interesting changes that are
> >> not mentioned above the full changelog is at
> >> 
> >>   https://www.kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications.php?version=16.0
> >>   8.0
> >> 
> >> This needs to be published thursday mid-day so ideally we should have
> >> this
> >> for wednesday night (european times).
> > 
> > Since nobody picked it up i went ahead and did the best i could (which is
> > not much good)
> > 
> > You can see it at
> > https://websvn.kde.org/trunk/www/sites/www/announcements/announce-applicat
> > ions-16.08.0.php?revision=1467235&view=markup
> > 
> > I would ask for someone to have a look but I guess that's too much to ask
> > too :'(
> > 
> > Sadness,
> > 
> >    Albert
> 
> Thank you for picking it up!
> For my part, I must admit I just found the material we had to work with too
> poor to even want to do it.
> It's frustrating when someone asks you to turn something into an exciting
> announcement, you look at it
> and there is hardly anything interesting in there. Either our application
> teams have actually done pretty
> much nothing interesting with their apps this cycle, or they are bad at
> communicating what they've done.

A bit of both i guess.

> Either way, not a good situation for us to be in.
> 
> That said, I'm impressed with what you got out of that scarce material!
> Attached you'll find my edits.

Tx

> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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