Re: [trinity-devel] R14 press information - tde-devels

7 Jan 2014

...
 What makes marketing of opensuse different from trinity
is 
that opensuse
work on a defined release schedule and has always done a number of 
things to
beat the drum about their release number next. 
We have plans to enact a maintenance release schedule after we 
release R14.0.0. Tentatively set at every 90 days. As is true with 
any software project, we keep pecking away at the "paper cuts," but 
a 90 maintenance release schedule also keeps Trinity in the news.

...
 I see marketing for tde as giving some love and
attention to the 
wiki to insure
that it is a welcoming and informative place for new users and 
distros to check
out, learn from and get involved. There were good etherpad efforts 
in the past
that probably still contain a wealth of information that has not 
made its way
into the wiki. I know we all have nothing but spare time, so the 
wiki gets its
love as time permits (though candidly, I do think it could use a 
bit, and I've
always pointed to the Archlinux wiki as a model of how to do a 
distro with a
code base integrated with it) 
Ah yes, spare time. I have no idea how to resolve that. Would be 
nice, even if only for a few days, to relive the days when Trinity 
patches were being submitted almost hourly and folks like you and I 
were testing just as fast the patches were submitted. :)

...
 When is the next tde meeting scheduled? We could put 
marketing/wiki on the
agenda and at least firm-up a direction to take in making whatever 
improvements
make sense. (hell, I might even get my freenode nick to register 
correctly for
once...) Keep the list posted on the schedule. 
We already have etherpads documenting such tasks. We don't need 
meetings where typically, after all is said and done, more is said 
than ever gets done. Instead we need able-bodied people to step 
forward and help. Anybody can create a wiki account and edit, 
reorganize, etc. Any Trinity user can review help handbook 
documents and post review comments to this list --- I'll update any 
such reviews. Somebody out there in Trinity user land has web 
skills to create a proposed mockup for web site changes.

As the Nike logo says, "Just do it." :)

Darrell