Re: [Publicity] Blog Czar update, week of June 10

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On mer, 2013-06-12 at 13:11 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On mer, 2013-06-12 at 10:50 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > At some point I wanted to make a blog post re-setting expectations for 
> > 4.3.  I made the mistake of asking software engineers when they thought 
> > something would be done, and then believing them, so there are an awful 
> > lot of things in the January blog post promised for 4.3 that are not 
> > going to make it.
> > 
> > Should we do that before the release?  Or just wait for the release and 
> > have a brief mention of my mistake?
> > 
> Mmm... I really am not sure. I guess the question is, are we releasing
> next week? If yes, you'd have do this really soon, e.g., Tomorrow,
> Friday, or very early next week.
> 
> However, if we're actually releasing, I think properly announcing the
> release itself is more important, and I don't think it's that bad to
> have such a post after the release (perhaps later next week, or even the
> week after). 
> 
And the other part of this whole reasoning was (sorry, sent too
early :-P) this: if, OTOH, the release is slipping, even by just a week
(and thus it happens around the 24, instead than around the 19, next
week), I guess the blog post can go out next week, preparing the proper
release announcement.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Dario

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