[Xfce-advocacy] Re: Reminder: Beta 2 this WE

[Auke Kok]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> yeah, i'm not convinced that formal release notes are necessary for 
> betas.  i think the main audience for these betas are people on this 
> list, and i think they have a reasonable idea of what to expect.  the 
> main thing we should release with the betas is a *short* document with 
> known issues/gotchas, any odd installation instructions/requirements, 
> and a pointer to http://bugs.xfce.org/ as a "how to report problems" 
> note.
>
> on an ironic side, i don't have oo.org installed, so i can't read the 
> release notes documents.  remote X to my desktop machine hasn't been 
> working properly lately... oh well... 


I'm more for a plain txt attachment the revision control can just be 
inline diff-style comments... however putting out a -beta release 
message is a good idea IMO.

second I was thinking of putting my efforts into finding the proper 
editorial addresses of 5 (arbitrary) linux/unix focussed major IT papers 
and magazines in the netherlands and making sure that they *GET* the 
official press announcement as soon as 4.2 goes live.

This is something we could coordinate a bit. To put it simple, we create 
a list and add editorial e-mail addresses to it that could be on there. 
I would take care of the dutch ones and write a quick translation to 
accompany it. I can send out stuff from espresso at one point.

It might also be a good thing to add some information to the press 
anouncement about what xfce exactly is (this will not be obvious to any 
linux editorial department...!). Didn't check the release announcement 
yet so good if it covers that.

sofar