From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 09:30:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1966716A408 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:30:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA6113C4C7 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:30:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E4947019; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 05:30:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 05:30:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Ivan Voras In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070406052849.J30801@fledge.watson.org> References: <4603D9FF.4070100@xk7.net> <4603E522.2090901@praxisvermittlung24.de> <20070404140323.C18288@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:30:22 -0000 On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >> Some things that might be neat to see articles about in the next six months >> as 7.0 approaches: > > I've had quite a few hits on my little summary "what's cooking for 7.0" > page, so I concurr the people are interested. > > I suggest to make an official section on the www.freebsd.org web which will > host these kind of articles. Sort of tied into the release system, so in > addition to the usual "Release notes", "Errata", "Supported platforms" and > other documents, each .0 version would have a "Highlights" section (one or, > preferebly, more pages) with a high-level to mid-level description of the > new (non arch-specific) features, presented as "selling points" for the > whole RELENG branch. > > I know that there's a short paragraph or two about new features in the > release notes currently, and I think this should stay, but I really think > there's a need for longer articles hosted on the official (i.e. not on > third-party) web site. > > If this passes in some form, I volunteer to write about the storage-oriented > things such as gjournal, ZFS & similar. I agree. The release notes are a great technical reference, but they are hardly marketing pieces. It would be good to see media- and human-friendly articles highlighting the new features in a release (and their importance), as well as articles on specific topics. The same thing is true of the status reports vs. commits, btw: sometimes making a list sorted by interest as opposed to by integration date is important. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge