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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Release work
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-30 21:57:36
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0901301357i2759f977pfa056bcc6fda563f () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Cyrille Berger <cberger@cberger.net> wrote:
> On Friday 30 January 2009, Alexandra Leisse wrote:
>> Hei!
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 14:30, Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>> > Hi everybody,
>> >
>> > FYI:
>> >
>> > I and Alexandra have started to plan on what we need to do for the final
>> > release of KOffice 2.0. So far we have agreed that I will start to write
>> > the release notes and she will work on the website. Since we are
>> > starting
>> > early, we will have time
>>
>> Which does not mean you could lean back and let *us* do all the work!
>> We will need material such as screenshots and desirably screencasts.
>> Would it be possible to do a video How-To for Plugin creation? As I've
>> recently learned that developers love to watch other developers code
>> this might be a cool thing to have.
> I don't know why... I am always disapointed to see a code tutorial in a
> video :) But would be cool to have videos aimed for users... Yet, we need
> good videos, and good screenshots, both of them aren't easy to achieve, we
> need some sort of guidelines for this.
>
>> > We also want to work on a visual guide like the one for KDE 4.2, but
>> > that
>> > will come a bit later.
>>
>> I heard Jos agreed on working on this. Which is great! Please, provide
>> him with the information he needs easily. This is quite some work he
>> has to do! Inge and I will proofread and polish his lyrics. ;)
> For this to work, you will need to be precise on the information needed.

At first, the feature plan and some blogs (I'll dig through them) are
enough to get started. I might ask questions here or in private but
that won't be a problem I suppose. I do intend to take a while off
(been working very hard the last few months on the other guide) but
hopefully I'll be able to start in a week or two. That would be OK in
terms of timing, right?

>> > We have agreed to focus on our frameworks and not push 2.0 so much for
>> > end users. That doesn't mean we will not recommend it to end users, but
>> > we will be very honest in our advertising so that we won't be accused of
>> > misleading our users.
>>
>> And I am faithful that this will work. We should be prepared for
>> reactions like "Oh, and this is another [insert nasty adjective here]
>> version numbering of KDE, they obviously have no clue how to do it
>> correctly..."
>
> Well there is something that play in our favor... Expectations for KOffice
> are lower... yet we still need to show that we are on the right track.
>
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> Cyrille Berger
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