[Panel-devel] one month of devel ==?

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 26 July 2007 16:18:56 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > This sounds like a good start of a short plasma writeup (1 paragraph) for
> the beta 1 announcement ;-)

The keymessages should be clear, however (three of them and they need to be 
very clear). I'm not sure if a plasma write-up is really what should go into 
the release notes. Much more a "this works, this is what we're fixing now" is 
important. Remember, the beta release is not so much about what's going on, 
but it's a software release.

> I can do it, if you don't have time, but you're a good writer so I'll ask
> you first ;-)
>
> And of course an up-to-date screencast. Take a few day's, that's OK...
> It'll be even more up-to-date :D

Not necessarily. We need the status snapshotted that's there when tagged, 
otherwise we'll show things that are not in the beta release.

A screencast of the whole desktop right now would make sense, though. But 
frankly, for a beta, the workspace looks quite incomplete still. kicker is 
still in, no panel, task switching by plasma, you cannot even change the 
wallpaper or other aspects. I know the plasmoids are cool, and I know that 
things are being worked on at a tremendous pace, but calling the desktop 
shell 'beta' at this point sends the wrong signal. Instead we need to make 
very clear that the main focus is on getting this thing complete (and then 
bugfixed). Plasma is not what we should focus on in the release notes, we 
should rather take a couple of applications that are further down the road -- 
think oKular, dolphin or marble. Those really shine.

Also, try to get a statement from the PIM peeps (not that kdepim does compile 
right now), but they've caught up quite a bit lately.

KOffice will be releasing their second Alpha at the same time, I think. Not 
sure if we should combine announcements, but it's worth considering. (Ingwa 
knows this best.)
-- 
sebas

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