Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0

[Tom Holroyd]

I should think you'd want to make an announcement now, to get a bunch
more folks to test things before the 3.0 release. I've been telling
people 3.0 is coming and their eyes light up. Wouldn't want to
disappoint them. Make a /. post in the developers section asking for
people to test the latest tarball. Remember there are still plenty of
folks who don't even know Octave exists.

On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 10:19 +0200, Soren Hauberg wrote:
> Michael Goffioul skrev:
> > On 10/7/07, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On 06/10/2007, Soren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> I was wondering if some sort of PR strategy for 3.0 has been planned?
> >> How about the usual channels? Slashdot, Digg?
> > 
> > From a PR point of view, I think it would be good to wait until binary
> > packages are available (Fedora, Debian, Mac OSX, Windows) and maybe
> > tested, before making the announcement.
> So, what does that mean? Essentially we have to make some 3.0 release 
> candidate release about a week before 3.0 is actually released. 
> Packagers then have a week to to build binary packages. Is that the kind 
> of thing you would want?
> 
> Soren

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