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Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12 |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:50:37 -0300 |
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Valentin Villenave
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> I've read plenty of release announcements, but my reaction is
>> different -- marketing make feel greasy and icky. I had five
>> years of training to be as precise as possible in my analytic
>> philosophy degree; I hate empty phrases like "50 new features".
>
> Oh, come on. I hate marketing as much as you do, but we are not
> selling anything to people who don't need it. We've had this debate
> many times, and you know how important I think it is to raise people's
> enthusiasm in such projects.
I think the release notes should both be enthusiastic, but also as
short and factual as possible. In this draft, I'd fold
- Our online documentation is now generated by a new system that
makes it simpler to browse... and much better-looking. It has never
been easier to get started with 'Pond!
into the doc item, and the doc item could be shorter.
- This release contains vastly improved collision detection. Many
graphical score objects will avoid overwriting each other, leading
to far fewer manual tweaks.
I think this is a good point, but it should be more specific: how is
it improved, what collisions are prevented?
as a matter of style, good things come in threes, so I'd add one other
highlight. I'd also mention the page breaking improvements.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
- Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/09/20
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Graham Percival, 2008/09/20
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Valentin Villenave, 2008/09/21
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Graham Percival, 2008/09/21
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Valentin Villenave, 2008/09/21
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Graham Percival, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Valentin Villenave, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Trevor Daniels, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12,
Han-Wen Nienhuys <=
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Trevor Daniels, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Trevor Daniels, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Carl D. Sorensen, 2008/09/22
- Release text (was Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12), Trevor Daniels, 2008/09/22
- Re: Release text (was Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12), Carl D. Sorensen, 2008/09/22
- Re: Release text (was Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12), Graham Percival, 2008/09/22
- Re: Release text (was Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12), Carl D. Sorensen, 2008/09/22
- Re: Release text (was Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12), Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/09/22