New website theme, when to roll out?

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

For what it's worth, i second Nikolaj's response (i was sort of writing 
something similar, so... there you go ;) ).

Wednesday 09 April 2008 skrev Nikolaj Hald Nielsen:
> I think launching it at the same time as Amarok 2.0 would be more _fun_ :-)
>
> For the new users coming from other platforms, it will not make a huge
> difference as they have likely not visited our page before, but for
> the old faithfuls it would help make the launch even more special and
> really help mark our transition from Amarok 1 to 2.
>
> So, my argument against is not really based on any concept of
> technical perfection. Also, I doubt that we can get an "The Amarok
> page has a new theme" story on Digg and friends. So the PR buzz of a
> separate rollout of this will likely be limited.
>
> - Nikolaj
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> >  emunkki (Pasi Lallinaho) has designed a new website theme for us. It's
> >  been worked on for quite a while and went through many iterations, and
> >  I think the latest mockup looks really neat:
> >
> >  http://projects.knome.ath.cx/amarok/WWW/
> >
> >  In my opinion this design is way better than our current old and
> >  trusty design, and we should roll it out ASAP (as soon as the details
> >  have been worked out).
> >
> >  Now a heated discussion has started about the right time for going
> >  live with the new theme. I (and also Ian Monroe) would like to see
> >  this implemented soon. Let me summarize our reasons:
> >
> >  1) Release early, release often
> >  2) The old site is getting *very* long in the tooth. It demotivates me
> >  just to look at it.
> >  3) The new theme seems ready to go, design wise.
> >  4) New site can provide us with some extra PR buzz, independent of the
> >  Amarok 2.0 release.
> >
> >  However, some Amarokers oppose this plan; E.g. Lydia and Harald would
> >  like to wait until the Amarok 2.0 release to roll out the new theme.
> >  They believe everything has to be perfectly fine tuned (like adapting
> >  the wiki and forum themes), and that it would create better PR to
> >  release the new theme along with Amarok 2.0 final (which as we all
> >  know will take quite some time).
> >
> >  I've become a bit tired of discussing this on IRC, so I'd like us to
> >  make a decision here. Please voice your opinion :)
> >
> >  --
> >  Mark
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