Re: web: news about cancelled rc (issue 6223054)

[Janek Warchoł]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:37:59PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>> Five rounds of guesswork from several developers for a single sentence
>> would not seem like the most efficient use of manpower for proceeding on
>> this item.
>
> Agreed; just go ahead and push whatever you have right now.
> Regardless of whether it matches David's or my suggestion.
>
> But as a general note, I recommend to re-use existing news items
> as much as possible (i.e. copy&paste to announce the latest
> lilypond report, only changing numbers and links.  Copy&paste
> release announcements, candidate rejections, etc.  If you just
> copy what we currently do (or recently did), then there'll be less
> thinking and discussion about whether the new plan is good or not.
>
> Even more general tip about "cat herding" (i.e. open-source
> developer management): if something isn't worth discussing, then
> try to make sure that nobody has anything to discuss.  Many
> lilypond policies are designed with that guideline.

good point.

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