Suggested deadline for 17.10 installer slideshow updates

Martin Wimpress martin.wimpress at canonical.com
Thu May 18 21:09:27 UTC 2017


Hi,

Sounds good. I've started up the updates for Ubuntu MATE and plan to have
them finished before Alpha 1.

On 18 May 2017 21:43, "Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre" <cyphermox at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last cycle, we've had a fair number of pretty late slideshow updates,
> and I had to do some amounts of manual translation mangling to fix
> issues. I'd like to avoid that this cycle, and for future cycles, too.
>
>
> Please see this as a reminder that it's a good idea to update the
> desktop installer slideshows early (and now is a great time to do
> that!), and often. I will try to track down a new "mascot" image for
> 17.10 right away.
>
>
> I would like to suggest we also collectively attempt to stick to a
> "stricter" schedule for slideshow updates. As such, I would recommend
> having the installer slideshow for your flavour of Ubuntu ready by
> September 21st, which happens to be Documentation String Freeze for 17.10.
>
>
> DocStringFreeze seems a reasonable point in time: it's one week after UI
> Freeze, by which time the UI should already be pretty stable (and moreso
> given what is typically included in screenshots in an installer
> slideshow). If your flavour opts to release Alpha or Beta images, then
> you should consider having the slideshow in more or less its final shape
> even earlier, of course :)
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
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