On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 03:37 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
On 2012-02-10 19:14:41 (-0600), Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@bryen.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 22:18 +0000, Richard Brown wrote: [...] You could also take a look at the list AJ is currently forming about what features people can begin to look forward to in 12.2. The list is still a work in progress, but its a starting point.
You don't need to go into a big spiel about what 12.2 is going to be. Just enough to whet their appetites before the big release. We slowly but surely increase the noise with each pre-release. :-)
One idea, if there are volunteers to do it, would be to make interviews of contributors who did most of feature X, or Y, ... I mean interviews about the features, not about themselves, although it might be nice to also have a few words on that, especially when they are a little less known to the community as, say, Henne or Coolo or Adrian.
e.g. when snapper came out, make a little interview about it with the main author, or make one with Frédéric about systemd, ...
That can be done at the release but might be more useful as features are promoted to the feature list with each milestone, to keep the buzz on press sites (also easier to handle for those who do the interviews: one interview once in a while rather than a batch of a dozen when the release is made ;)).
Agreed. It should be part of an editorial schedule we should start making in preparation for release of 12.2. We did similarly with creating an editorial schedule for 12.1 (though I cannot point to it since ietherpad went boom.) The more we lay out what we should be highlighting and generating noise buildup, the easier it will be to prepare and assign articles. At present this is not something we do by habit, but rather as a "newish" approach to our news site. But the more we do this in a regular fashion, the more I can see devs or packagers pinging us to say "Hey, I got this cool thing, can you write an article about it please?" And that will, in the long run, make news.o.o easier to work with, whereas presently we're at the mercy of ourselves hunting around for relevant news to promote when we may/may not really get what is news-worthy just yet. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project
It requires some preparation though, IMHO, to ask useful questions that are on topic as most developers are not exactly ... um ... verbose. And a generic set of questions as for "the people of openSUSE" would be pointless IMHO.
Well, it's just an idea.
cheers
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