On 25.10.2011 Rajko wrote:
On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:50:38 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote: ...
What I would like to see is who, when, how made it. People worked on it {Release manager, Teams (coders, packagers, documents writers, artists, testers) and all numerous upstream projects. Tools used to build and test. Features included.
Yup, that's a good point. We always thank "all contributors" but should mention tools there too. The list of features - that's what we work on on here, help VERY MUCH appreciated as it's not easy and a lot of work: http://ietherpad.com/12-1-release-notes
Making a list of people and upstream projects - well, if you think you can do it, please do... It is possible but quite some work. : :)
Being specific is fading with distance from project and release manager.
Teams will be named as teams with links to their pages, and reader will be pointed to collective list of teams in the wiki, just in case we miss someone.
Numerous upstream projects will stay just that, numerous upstream projects. We can try to list web pages of all software included in openSUSE in one or more wiki pages and refer to http://en.opensuse.org/Upstream_projects , which should be relatively easy task to extract from rpm files.
Someone with access to all files, please step up. What is needed is: Project name - home page.
There is also a category of special thanks to people that did big things, which can be given outside release notes, as series of interviews with prominent guys. I have in mind custom interviews bound to topic, like systemd, Tumbleweed, OBS, Packman, Gnome and other major components. In those interviews they can give attribution to other people involved.
There is secondary effect of such interviews, they will keep attention to openSUSE longer then just release days.
Not disagreeing with anything but I'm extremely busy, so are many others and have a big list of things to do. Unless you can do any of the things above - they won't happen ;-) See our http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_Checklist - feel free to add tasks with your name on them if you think you can do it...