Announcement of 2.5alpha -- what to highlight?

[C. Boemann]

On Monday 28 May 2012 16:28:08 Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Monday, May 28, 2012 16:14:51 Markus wrote:
> > Am Montag 28 Mai 2012, 15:06:37 schrieb Inge Wallin:
> > > Another thing: I know that Boemann is targetting academic users with
> > > Words.
> > 
> > Just a hint from someone with a little experience in KDE Promo: Be
> > careful how you phrase that. "Target" can mean a lot. With formula
> > support being worked on SOC, I suppose the natural sciences are not the
> > main target of that release. So probably the humanities. If by "target"
> > it is meant that Words 2.5.0 is intended to be fully recommended for
> > that audience, great, but then it should really be 100% ready.
> 
> Good point. In this case it means something like "has in mind when
> prioritizing features". And as we all know, it's not 100% ready yet.
> 
> > However it may be wise to underline that despite its version number Words
> > is a completely new application and that for the upcoming one or two
> > release cycles are meant to make Words academia-friendly and that
> > students and teachers are the foremost audience to be asked to file bug
> > reports. 2.5.0 may be communicated to be ready for academic
> > presentations and abstracts in the humanities, 2.6.0 extends that to
> > natural sciences, and 2.7.0 might be ready for a 100+ pages thesis,
> > incl. automatic hyphenation support etc.
> 
> Also good points.  But I'll wait with these distinctions until 2.5.0 is
> announced. This time it's little less than a formal announcement and a few
> hightlights of new features.
> 
without wanting to be as specific about what each version might accomplish, I 
do agree with the overall point you are making.