Re: Near-Final Draft: GNOME 2.30 Press Release - feedback needed!

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 22:23 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org> wrote:
> > Second sentence:   The 2.30 builds on previous GNOME releases - maybe
> > should be:  The 2.30 release builds on previous GNOME releases
> 
> Fixed by changing to "GNOME 2.30 builds on ... "
> 
> > For the Stormy quote does "excited" work better than "psyched"?  I would
> > also add the word "automatically": sync my Tomboy notes between my
> > desktop and laptop computer automatically - Tomboy has had a sync
> > feature for a while, the auto-sync is the new feature.
> 
> I'll let Stormy cast the deciding vote on that. I avoided "excited"
> because it's sort of a PR cliche. (The Bay Area in California must be
> populated by software executives in a perpetual state of excitement,
> if press releases are to be believed...)
> 
> > I'd recommend taking out the preview release of Activity Journal - it's
> > not currently hosted on GNOME infrastructure (it uses Launchpad).
> 
> Should it also be removed from the release notes? I mostly pulled from those.
> 
> > Link to live media is:  http://torrent.gnome.org - should be available
> > within 48 hours of release - I have an email in to Zhang Zhen (lead
> > developer) and Ken Vandine to confirm, but haven't heard back yet.
> 
> Sweet. Thanks!
> 
> > Looks good and thank you for taking the time to put this together.
> 
> My pleasure.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Zonker

I get it - I misread the first paragraph, sorry!

As far as Activity Journal - the tarball that was released [1] is from
early February, and doesn't have a 2.30 release similar to how Owen is
releasing GNOME Shell with the GNOME release cycle, so where the press
release says:  "The 2.30 release contains significant user-visible
improvements, it also adds numerous platform improvements for
developers, and builds towards the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release with a
preview of the revolutionary GNOME Shell and Activity Journal." - I
don't think it's accurate as there is no preview release of Activity
Journal yet.

It is Seif's intent to have it included in GNOME 3.0, so I think it's ok
in the looking forward section as it will be introduced as a module in
the coming weeks.

I hope that makes sense.

Paul

[1] https://launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal