Re: [Publicity] 4.4 Release announcement

[Sarah Conway <sconway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi George et all, 

The release is targeted at press covering enterprise technologies and trends like security, cloud, mobile, big data, infrastructure, app dev. These could be business-level IT managers and decision-makers making IT purchases to a range of IT professionals -- sysadmins, datacenter managers, devops professionals, IT architects, etc. -- solving IT problems. The publications range from targeting end users to SIs, consultants, etc. 

As a next step, I'll reconocile the many edits that have circulated this week to create an updated draft. I agree that it's highly technical still. Ideally the release should be about 2 pages long maximum. I'll revise the ARM section accordingly based on your feedback and remove some additional technical features in the bullet section. Happy to discuss this live via the phone too. I've had some guidance on the top 2-3 biggest new features, but since there are still so many technical details, perhaps a chat would be useful. 

A product release should include the first, best, only features, the pain point the new features will solve, who will -- or already is -- benefiting from the newest features (quote from user). We are also using the product release to demonstrate Xen Project community activity and momentum. 

Does this help? I'll also put together a timeline of next steps and what still needs to happen prior to the PR launch/release date.

Thanks,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:04 AM, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lars / Sarah,

Who is the release announcement supposed to be targeting? And about how long is an expected release announcement meant to be? It seems awfully technical in places.

The main point of the ARM section I think is to demonstrate that our support is growing significantly (hence naming the boards makes sense) and that this release has stopped being so much of a "tech preview" and is going to have a stable ABI, working user-space tools, &c &c.  People who need to know the technical details can then look more into them.

 -George

On 02/21/2014 12:19 PM, George Dunlap wrote:

Sarah,

There haven't been any really big issues since RC4 was tagged on Monday; to the plan is to tag RC5 today, and then Monday to branch. At that point, RC5 will become Xen 4.4.0 whenever the PR machinery is ready for it to be.

I've volunteered to help coordinate the announcement stuff (along with Russ) in Lars' absence.  I'll take a look at the release announcement this afternoon.  Is there anything else you need from me?

Thanks!

 -George

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