Ping. I haven't received any responses so far, please let me know if you're planning on doing this.
Thanks, On (Tue) 24 Nov 2015 [10:28:25], Amit Shah wrote: > Hello, > > The 2.5 release is close - and I'm collecting a list of notable > changes and features once more. The video made for the 2.4 release > [1] was popular, and I'm volunteering to make one for 2.5 as well. In > addition, we need more feature pages, and there's a template at [2] > that you can use to base feature pages off. > > I've CC'ed maintainers whose pull reqs got merged for the 2.5 cycle, > but this is not restricted to maintainers only - feature owners are > welcome to submit their videos and author feature pages as well -- > please coordinate with the maintainers who sent pull reqs so there's > no duplication of content for the video. > > Please get me the videos before Monday, 7 December, and I can then get > the final video ready in time for the 10th December release date. > > For the feature pages, please link them to the ChangeLog page at [3]. > > Details: > > This time, we can actually put the video out on release day (even > within the release announcement?) since we have a bit of time on > hands. Can you please go through the notable enhancements in your > subsystems for the 2.5 release, and send me a short (max. 2 mins) > video highlighting the changes in 2.5, and optionally something about > where we're headed in the future with those changes? A brief note on > how those changes impact users (directly, or via higher level > software, e.g. openstack) will be useful. > > The video can be shot using a phone camera (preferably the main > camera), or a webcam / laptop cam. For consistency, it's better if > the videos are at least 720p (higher the better!), and have as less > background noise as possible. I can remove the background noise using > audacity, but that makes the main voice sound robotic, so it's better > not to resort to that. > > Please upload to some file sharing service (preferably no login > required), and send me a pointer. > > > Additionally, more search-friendly text-based feature pages help > users, testers and future contributors a lot, so please create feature > pages for major changes, and include as much information as possible. > The template at [2] should be a good start to help thinking about what > information to include. > > > [1] http://log.amitshah.net/2015/09/qemu-maintainers-on-the-2-4-release/ > [2] http://qemu-project.org/NewFeatureTemplate > [3] http://qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/2.5 > > Thanks, > > Amit > > Amit
