Amarok 2.0 beta 3 announcement

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Sven Krohlas <sven at asbest-online.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> hmmm... I just got a link to a google docs page that I wrote some
>>> stuff on before reading the message about the wiki page, so I assumed
>>> that all the usual suspects had been invited...
>
> Nothing wrong there Nikolaj. Thanks for your work and everyone else
> who worked on it so far.
> Looking good.
>
>> Not me, the first time I heard about that Doc was in this thread.
>
> That is because Kuba started it only then.
>
>> That's the problem I'm talking about: Google Docs is for closed
>> user groups. But we are an open project with very high fluctuation
>> regarding participating people. And you have to invite all of them.
>
> None of them are helping with release notes. The usual suspects have
> all been invited. No harm done.
>
>> We had that when Nightrose was away. Sebr wrote an announcement for
>> the dot, markey did so, too. Both were submitted. This can only happen
>> when we are not open enough.
>
> No! This can only happen when people don't listen and comunicate. I
> prepared everything and told people where to find it. This was clearly
> a communication issue between Mark and Seb. Not a problem of where the
> stuff was at all.
>
>> The Wiki has an recent changes RSS feed. So everyone who might want
>> to contribute can see when we start something. And everyone sees what
>> work has already been done, what changes have been made.
>
> An email to this list does the same.

Very well said, Lydia. I fully agree with pretty much everything you wrote.

I also favour Google Docs greatly over the Wiki for prototyping such
documents, especially because of the concurrent editing it allows.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org