From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Nov 19 5:29:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBBB37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 05:29:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1889243E77 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 05:29:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from isy.liu.se (tuttle.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.189]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id gAJDT2202946; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:29:03 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:29:50 +0100 Subject: Re: 5.0-DP2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG To: Eric Anderson From: Michael Josefsson In-Reply-To: <3DDA391B.40104@centtech.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Precisely. Get people primed for the release. When it is released everyone should feel they want to take the natural step and deploy it. Take a peek at how Microsoft et al do. Raise expectations enormously. Disclose some well defined issues (like that irritating paper clip helper or something --- mind you FreeBSD have better things). People will talk about it and that's the point. Nothing succeeds like success! Press releases (releasii:) are always good material. /Micke On tisdag, nov 19, 2002, at 14:14 Europe/Stockholm, Eric Anderson wrote: > Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: >>> Now that 5.0-DP2 is out, isn't it a good idea to make a press >>> release out of it, that the media can quote from? Remember, we need >>> to hype 5.0... >> Until `cvs -r RELENG_5_0_RELEASE src` delivers, I'd suggest caution >> in >> case release builders have to withdraw something. > > I think we can still hype it up - without disclosing much. We can do > just the same as everyone else - make a big deal about DP2, and what > it means to the community, how people "feel" about it, blah blah. > Just something to get people recognizing that FreeBSD 5.0 is coming > and all should be getting ready to enjoy the benefits. > > Eric > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology > Beware the fury of a patient man. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message