Re:5.12 release: congratulations and post-mortem

Another problem is that announcement text has been changed many times in last 2 days, and all the translations were broken. I think by the announcement time, we should have translations in place, so the text has to be finalized in advance.

Cheers,
Ilya.
---- On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:54:19 +0300 [email protected] wrote ----

Congrats on a fantastic release of Plasma 5.12 everybody! People are 
really gonna love it. 

The release process was a bit rockier than expected, and I thought I 
might do a post-mortem to see how we can make the next one smoother: 



Problem: Initial request for release notes was not seen by many 
=============================================================== 
Solutions: 
- Send email to [email protected] and [email protected] as well 
- Use a Phabricator task instead of email to track overall work 
- Make a subtask to track gathering release notes from developers 
- Delegate a specific person (Ivanna?) to be responsible for turning the 
release notes into final marketing copy 



Problem: Unclear roles; nobody knew who owned the beta announcement 
=================================================================== 
Solutions: 
- Make roles and responsibilities clear to all; assign specific people 
to specific tasks 
- Make the KDE Promo crew the guardians of everything public-facing 



Problem: Unclear access to the kde.org website 
============================================== 
(At once point, changes were requested and planned, but the one person 
that everybody knew had access was on vacation) 

Solutions: 
- Define who should have access ahead of time 
- Get those people access to the website ahead of time 



Problem: Promo video produced at the last minute, gating final release 
====================================================================== 
Solutions: 
- Supply whomever is making the video with a pre-release copy of Plasma 
5.12 at least a few days in advance so that the video can be completed 
sooner 



Thoughts? 

Nate