Good point.
On Sunday 21 May 2006 10:18 pm, Matt Townsend wrote: > That's a solid technical point, but I think a review of a milestone release > seems much more likely than say, 2.1. Round numbers interest people. > > "Version 2.1" seems significantly less newsworthy than "version 2.0." You > could risk bad reviews on a 2.0, but I suspect you'd risk no reviews for a > 2.1. > > On Monday 22 May 2006 12:39 am, Olaf Faaland wrote: > > Since so many modules/etc have been touched, do you really want to try to > > get reviews in magazines, or save that for 2.1? Presumably 2.0 will have > > many bugs that will be fixed in 2.1, and presumably 2.1 will not be too > > far off in the future. > > > > This is of course separate from notifying distros that GnuCash is now > > gtk2. > > > > On Sunday 21 May 2006 09:20 pm, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > > I dont have specific contacts, but I think that it would be a good > > > thing to get the attention of the following for this release, > > > especially due to that they may have written Gnucash off (possibly); > > > a) distro's - I know we have the RedHat and Debian guy's paying > > > attention to us already but it'd be good to get the word out to make > > > sure GnuCash is once again included by default in as many distro's as > > > possible > > > b) online/offline computing magazines - would be great to get an > > > updated reviews of the release in Linux Journal or some other sites > > > such as OSNews (as many as possible) > > > c) General public - not quite sure how to reach out to people here, but > > > perhaps we could do that through sites like gnomedesktop.org and > > > freshmeat and possibly slashdot? > > > > > > Anyway the goal in my mind should be getting out the word as widely as > > > possible that we are now gnome2/gtk2 and have made some advances in > > > user functionality in getting there too. > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > Matt Townsend wrote: > > > > I don't think there's anything wrong with having both a standard > > > > announcement and a press release--depending on where you send things. > > > > I'm not sure the press release, especially something with quotes, > > > > would make much sense posted on the site's main page. However, if > > > > you want to send something off to the people at Redhat, SuSE, and the > > > > various linux and computing magazines/sites, this would be better. > > > > > > > > Do you already have contacts at any of these places? > > > > > > > > Are you aiming to get articles published about 2.0.0? Do you want to > > > > get the attention of the main distros? Or are you trying to announce > > > > the release to the general public, e.g. site visitors? The answers > > > > to these questions help determine just what kind of press release you > > > > need. > > > > > > > > MT > > > > > > > > On Sunday 21 May 2006 8:34 pm, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > > >> Way to go, this is just the kind of press release GnuCash needs. I'm > > > >> all for making this the default announcement, the stuff I put > > > >> together for the releases really doesn't do much more than announce > > > >> bugfixes. > > > >> > > > >> Chris > > > >> > > > >> Christian Stimming wrote: > > > >>> Am Sonntag, 21. Mai 2006 20:59 schrieb Matt Townsend: > > > >>>> I uploaded a draft onto the wiki. > > > >>> > > > >>> Great! This is way cool! Now we "only" need to fill in the actual > > > >>> content! Thanks a lot for this suggestion, and I guess we will add > > > >>> suggestions for the missing parts quite soon. > > > >>> > > > >>> @Developers: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Announcement_2.0.0 is > > > >>> worth a good laugh in its current state :-) but Matt obviously made > > > >>> it very clear what kind of details we need to add. > > > >>> > > > >>> Any suggestions for new features that are newsworthy should be > > > >>> added to the list at the wiki page. > > > >>> > > > >>> Christian > > > >>> > > > >>>> On Sunday 21 May 2006 8:35 am, you wrote: > > > >>>>> Hi Matt, > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> yes, that would be absolutely great! For the developers, it is a > > > >>>>> quite "weak side" for all of them to write up something really > > > >>>>> interesting. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> I would suggest to collect any notes and ideas in the wiki page, > > > >>>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Announcement_2.0.0 > > > >>>>> I hope we can provide the technical details quite soon, so that > > > >>>>> an interesting text can be compiled in time. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Regards, > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Christian > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Am Sonntag, 21. Mai 2006 09:14 schrieben Sie: > > > >>>>>> Christian, > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> I saw your posting about a press release for 2.0.0. I have a > > > >>>>>> journalism degree, and I'd be happy to help draft something > > > >>>>>> "newsy" in English about the milestone version--once technical > > > >>>>>> details about the version were provided (e.g. changelog, major > > > >>>>>> feature additions, et cetera). > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> Regards, > > > >>>>>> Matt Townsend > > > >>>>>> Central Florida, U.S. > > > >>> > > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > > >>> gnucash-devel mailing list > > > >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > > >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
