Thread: Press Release status?

Subject says it all ... :)

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> Press Release status?

As far as I can tell, it is completely done and ready to go. I looked it
over and found no problems, and every issue people brought up seems to
have been resolved and incorporated. Hopefully, the translators are
already hard at work on it. :)

Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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Marc,

> Subject says it all ... :)

I'm not sure.   I'm accessing via dial-up right now; my father-in-law
managed to have an industrial accident on Thanksgiving, so this is my
first chance to check.

FWIW, can we *NEVER* do a release on a major holiday in a country with
1/3 of our volunteers, again?  I accessing e-mail from my in-laws'
computer.

As far as I know, the following steps still need to be taken:

1) Notifying all translators and collecting translated versions.
2) Assembling an e-mailing list for press
3) Createing a cleaned-up version of the changes page for press.
4) Checking/fixing the links on the Advocacy site.
5) Sending out the release to the e-mail list from 2)

I will do the first half of 1), but I need someone else to collect the
responses, as I am on webmail at the moment.

I will attempt to do 3 and send the version to Robert; however, working
on this computer is downright painful (limited to 20wpm) so no
promises.

Sorry to "duck out" on this, but I underestimated the difficulty of
working in rural Oregon.

-Josh Berkus

Marc,

I propose that we consider calling the 7.3 press release a "learning
experience" and allowing 7.3 to go up without a release.   We can then
mail the release a few days later, perhaps Friday.

Justin is unavailable, as is Robert; I am constrained by slow dial-up
and limited hours, and the translators were just notified to start
work.  Frankly, I can't imagine how we could get this act together
sooner than 2 days after I get back to my office (meaning Thursday).

BTW, I put you down on as one of the two people to whom the translators
should mail their translated versions.  Sorry for doing that
arbitrarily; but I'm on webmail here and yours was the only address I
have memorized, and I didn't want copies going *only* to me.

-Josh Berkus

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Marc,
>
> I propose that we consider calling the 7.3 press release a "learning
> experience" and allowing 7.3 to go up without a release.   We can then
> mail the release a few days later, perhaps Friday.
>
> Justin is unavailable, as is Robert; I am constrained by slow dial-up
> and limited hours, and the translators were just notified to start
> work.  Frankly, I can't imagine how we could get this act together
> sooner than 2 days after I get back to my office (meaning Thursday).
>
> BTW, I put you down on as one of the two people to whom the translators
> should mail their translated versions.  Sorry for doing that
> arbitrarily; but I'm on webmail here and yours was the only address I
> have memorized, and I didn't want copies going *only* to me.

No probs ... I haven't seen any yet, but will keep an eye out for them ...

Marc, Folks,

Please disregard my panicked e-mails.  Apparently I missed a few days
of postgresql mail, and was completely unaware that the press release
had gone out.

Since I did not receive any e-mail from this list for the last 2 days,
what did I miss?  Is everything taken care of?   What's going on?

-Badly Confused Josh