request for review: Gutsy release candidate announcement

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at canonical.com
Wed Oct 10 22:24:10 UTC 2007


On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:23:17AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I think we should move "About Ubuntu" lower on the page, and "About the
> release candidate" higher.  Similarly, download and upgrade information
> should be more prominent than general info (perhaps immediately after the
> highlights?).

> More Info and About Ubuntu can probably be merged into one section.

Agreed on all of these.  Please review my changes, I don't know if I've
moved the "About the release candidate" section too high now?

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:42:51AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > We're on from the beta to the release candidate, so I need your help once
> > more in reviewing the draft of the release announcement.  The draft can be
> > found here:
> > 
> >    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/RCAnnouncement
> > 
> > Much of this text has been copied wholesale from the beta announcement and
> > will look familiar, but perhaps I've overlooked some important new
> > information or introduced some errors along the way.
> > 
> > There was also a discussion on this list after the beta about boot time
> > improvements, but I don't think that resulted in any concrete numbers and
> > the thread seems to have petered out.  If there really are widespread boot
> > speed improvements since Feisty that would be great to mention, but we'd
> > need to demonstrate this first.
> > 
> > Please feel free to edit the wiki page directly if corrections are needed,
> > or if you have points that need discussion please Cc: me on any replies.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help!




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