I will help with the GNOME wiki and stuff too On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 00:43 -0700, Sankar P wrote:
In a few months we have a release. That means there is work to do.
Take this bug for example:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659659
Yes, we need to come up with a list of top features for the 11.4 release.
This
ain't an easy task, taking up a serious amount of time and discussion. Once it is done, a draft announcement can be made as well as other things.
We need to come with the features? Why isn't this reported to us by the sub-projects? Example... KDE reports their features, GNOME reports their features, and so on...
It is one of the agenda items in today's meeting to discuss about GNOME Features from openFATE. Also, we (try to) maintain a list at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_features for next release.
During the 11.3 release, For the release notes, we gathered this "list of new things" from the individual team(s) via IRC itself. IIRC, I gave it for GNOME, Bille for KDE, and then we just got hold of some kernel people over irc. So, we can repeat the same this time. I believe we may not need a face-to-face meeting just for this. However, any face-to-face interaction will do more good than harm :-) There are a lot of problems with travel like Visa, cost, accomodation etc. However, I am not against face-to-face meetings, I believe it is better to spend that money for something else like oSConference, instead of release-marketing-planning. (my 2 cents etc. no strong opinions on this)
I agreee with Jos that a PULL model is what will work best for Kernel, gcc etc. for getting the list of new features instead of expecting them to come and give us the features. It is just because of the nature/style of the work.
I volunteer to get the new features list (for gnome atleast), screenshots, review of announce mail, spreading of the release link to reddit, digg, etc. , just like last time. I will work with everyone who have volunteered in the wiki. I think we as a team did an excellent job last time for the 11.3 release compared with the previous releases. It looks we will be making a even better release for 11.4 :)
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To do this, Bryen and me propose to have a meeting in the beginning of Februari (either shortly before, during or just after FOSDEM).
That means we have 1 month (the shorter of the year, February) and barelly 1 week and half. Ain't this too late, considering the first part of your email where we still have to dig the features ?
Bryen has set up a wiki page here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest
Looks Good.
Sankar http://psankar.blogspot.com
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