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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] KDE 4.0 release party
From:       Torsten Rahn <torsten.rahn () credativ ! de>
Date:       2007-08-23 17:12:39
Message-ID: 200708231912.39141.torsten.rahn () credativ ! de
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On Thursday 23 August 2007 19:01:52 Eric Krüse wrote:
> We are releasing in October, why a January party and why in the week?

Because the October release date is just "wishful thinking" right now. If you 
ask me even January is pretty optimistic but I think it could be done with 
much effort.

Really, to deliver a desktop that works at least a little bit, you need to 
have at least one beta release which has most features working with just 
issues to be sorted out. Having looked at the previous Beta 1 we still have 
yet to see such a Beta and I'm sure Beta 2 won't be that Beta yet.

Torsten

> "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo@kde.org> schrieb: On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Troy 
Unrau wrote:
> > I am not happy working in secrecy forever as that is not what KDE is
> > about.  We are far enough along that those that would be poisonous to
> > the event planning could no longer exert their control on this event,
> > and our team is pretty much set as it exists right now.
> 
> agreed. i'm just fine with talking about the release event in general.
> we've been doing that for a few months now, actually.
> 
> but specifically what i'm concerned about is the level of certain details
> covered in that blog entry. for instance, we now have 5 months where some
> other project could beat us to the punch of hosting their release event at
> google. it's not the end of the world, but it adds some risk that our event
> won't be as media interesting (which is in part derived from uniqueness; if
> everyone's doing it, it's boring. if we're the first to do something, it's
> very interesting)
> 
> i'd also prefer for us stage the release of the various details over time
> versus all at once in a blog entry; this probably just means we have more
> riding on the people we get to attend as presenters now as that's one of
> the remaining bits we can still talk about and it be news.
> 
> these are things we can do Better(tm) with through coordination. it's not a
> life ending issue.
> 
> > By the way, releasing little bits of information at a time is how you
> > build hype.
> 
> i agree.
> 
> > Cheers folks, and once again it seems I'm stepping on people's toes.
> 
> that's part of working in a group, yes. fortunately we all have pretty
> tough toes and tend to tell each other when someone is on them.
> 
> > It's a good time to take a break :)
> 
> enjoy your vacation =)



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